Modern Slavery Quotes:

It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.

- Barack Obama

source: President Barack Obama's remarks at Clinton Global Initiative at Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York City, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 23, 2014.

topic: Talking, Common Humanity, Names, Modern Slavery, Organized Crime

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

- William Wilberforce

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Looks, Modern Slavery, Abolition

Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or country ... [It] is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Country, Commitment, Rights, Modern Slavery, Involuntary

I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.

- Barack Obama

topic: Believe, Issues, One Day, Modern Slavery

The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.

- Sheryl WuDunn

source: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.24, Vintage

topic: Crush, Political, Slavery, Modern Slavery

Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.

- Pope Francis

topic: Children, Thinking, Light, Modern Slavery, Catholic Pro Life

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Class, Community, Slavery, Modern Slavery, Modern World

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery. The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.

- Randall Robinson

source: Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

topic: Men, People, Justice, Modern Slavery, Prison Population

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

- Dillon Burroughs

topic: America, What If, Church, Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

- Josiah Stamp

topic: Banking, Modern, Modern Slavery, Monetary System, Central Banks

Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.

- Kevin Bales

topic: Confused, Book, Games, Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking