Sara Gideon Quotes

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Our laws must protect victims.

I'm not asking victims to change their behavior. I'm asking perpetrators not to commit crimes.

I find it disturbing that men who are products of highly developed economies come to a developing nation solely to exploit their women and their children.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

…these poor men…who are bound, not only for all their lives, but for those of their children.

Economic growth will not stop slavery, at least not anytime soon.

We spend an awful lot of money on the criminal justice system that could better be spent at the other end of the spectrum.

To control violence [and other crime] requires a police system of professional investigations and good equipment. We don’t have it.

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world.... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.

There are at this day in Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country … It were better for the nation if they were sold to the galleys or West Indies, than that they should continue any longer to be a burden and curse upon us.

Societies cannot honestly support women as builders of the new economies while tolerating a market in which criminals sell them as commodities.

Let’s open our hearts to [crime] victims and their families and give them something more than vengeance.

Prostitution is always a compelled choice, through either violence or destitution, and that glamorizing it as “work” trivializes the harm it does to the women in it.

Increase of slaves in this colony is injurious to the poor and inconvenient

Sexist and racist economic policies in the United States such as a lack of educational opportunity for poor families and a lack of sustainable income from many jobs contribute to women’s and girls’ entry into prostitution. The economic and legal vulnerability of undocumented immigrant women in the United States is exploited in prostitution/pornography

How about this? Stop arresting prostitutes, and start using the 13th amendment against pimps.

In Thailand the sexual behavior of Thai men accepts prostitution. Every class of Thai men accept it, practice it. So they don't see it as a problem. So when it comes to the policymakers, who are mostly men, of course, they don't see this as a problem. They know there are many women who are brought into prostitution in Thailand. They know that some are treated with brutal violence. But they don't think it's a terrible picture. They think it's just the unlucky cases. And, because of the profit, I think there are many people with an interest involved, so they try to turn a blind eye to this problem

…the ownership of slaves brought men great gain from the multitude of their progeny, who increased because they were exempt from military service. Thus certain powerful men became extremely rich and the race of slaves multiplied throughout the country, while the Italian people dwindled in numbers and strength, being oppressed by penury, taxes, and military service.

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?