Sheryl WuDunn Quotes
Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is... bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth. They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year.
Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl WuDunn. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, p. xi.
The 13th Amendment prohibited slavery, and she argues that if pimps who force prostitutes to work for them were arrested and prosecuted for slavery, a much more serious crime, it would discourage the pimps and in her view greatly reduce prostitution. Critics argue that other mechanism for the commercial organization of prostitution would replace the pimps. However, the critics have not been able to refute the notion that pimps were the most socially undesirable and criminal elements of prostitution merchandising, and eliminating pimping would be constructive even if there were no change in the number of prostitutes.
He was not correct that all sects and nations have agreed that slavery is desirable. The Jews escaping from Egypt, the early American and British religious sects that were strong abolitionists were examples. However, there were relatively few exceptions and generally, the Sultan had it right.
The sexual exploitation of female slaves by the slave owner and/or his relatives was a phenomenon about which most Southerners were in denial. Light skinned and even white babies, born to Negro slaves was fairly common. The gross immorality was so great that it was too painful for most Southerners – especially white females to even contemplate much less discuss. At the same time, the abolitionists had to be very careful that to raise this problem as delicately as possible lest the lost their audience with such gross and indelicate behavior. This quotation was particularly artfully phrased.
See {642028} & {642029} for another quotation relating to this terrible abuse.
This was the first public outing of Thomas Jefferson’s sexual relationship with his slave Sally Hemmings.
Sheryl WuDunn is an American business executive, writer, lecturer, and Pulitzer Prize winner.
