Aldis Hodge Quotes

In 12 years of public school I can never remember any of my teachers describing slavery for what it was.

I have never been able to procure sufficient slaves to cultivate my lands and that of any guilt that attached to this trade we [planters] were at most but partners with the Parliament which tolerated it, and the country which profited so much from it.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

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

Human slavery was the precondition for the rise of higher education in America.

We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.

We should all be neo-abolitionists here to make sure that there is no right in America to enslave others using the Internet.

Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.

If you asked someone who was a Maori about how they felt about how they were treated in Australia or New Zealand, you'll get an answer. They'll have something to tell you. And you might not like what you hear.

Selling the commodity of humans has to be the biggest business out there, as it is the most lucrative. I cannot go to sleep at night, unless I know that I am using all of my platforms to fight human trafficking.

There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There's no criminality to it. So, it was just like, 'It's over,' and thus, because it was over, and it was never considered 'wrong' in the prosecutable, criminal sense of the word, the country doesn't take it as wrong.

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

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their liberty, dignity and human rights. We have to work together to realize the equal rights promised to all by the United Nations Charter. And we must collectively give meaning to the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that "no one shall be held in slavery or servitude"

In reality, victims of human trafficking are often left voiceless and completely unseen by society.

When we look at human trafficking, we always think that it's far away from us.

I feel like we haven't dealt with the ghosts of America's past, and the way to deal with it is to confront it, so every time people see me, I want them to be reminded and to confront that ghost.

Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and kindness.

The violence in 'Visaranai' is based on reality.

I do not claim to be an expert on race in America.

It is troubling that modern slavery is a crime that can be hidden in the supply chains of the goods and services we use every day. The uncomfortable reality is that the money we spend could be driving demand for slavery across the globe.