John Montgomery Quotes

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must project its values and protect vulnerable persons.

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people.

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

Imagine your own daughters being sold into a life of rape and bone crushing labor.

This is about slavery.

It will perhaps be somewhat surprising to learn that there is no Federal law which makes it a crime for one person to hold another in slavery or involuntary servitude, unless such person has been, in the first instance, kidnapped or carried away or bought or sold.

Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible.

A new kind of slavery will emerge. It will probably adopt the cruelest form of domination the community could impose upon the individual and the state upon the community.

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death

The draft should be called slavery, involuntary servitude.

They would pull people off the streets, anybody with warm blood who could say yes or no or move arms and legs.

All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving of the child, as if the wrong of enslaving the parent had never been perpetrated.

Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.

Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.

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.

Yes, I was detained for eight days in Waziristan in 1996. It was against my will, and my passport and money were taken from me. I was not mistreated or harmed, but I was also not allowed to leave.