Theresa May Quotes

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

It is a debasement of our common humanity that must be called by its true name, modern slavery …. When a woman is locked in a sweatshop, or trapped in a home as a domestic servant, alone and abused and incapable of leaving—that’s slavery.

Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.

We've got some new ways to make slaves here.

It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.

Enslavement is when one person completely controls another person, uses violence or violent threats to maintain that control, exploits them economically, and pays them effectively nothing. Trafficking in persons is a process of enslaving someone.

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.

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.

The slave trade must be suppressed.

Modern day slavery is the great tragedy of our time and the U.S. cannot turn a blind eye to it on our soil or another nation's.

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

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.

It's modern-day slavery.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

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.

Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them homes-away-from-home. But there can be dark corners in familiar places.

The traffic in slaves is a matter on which all sects and nations have agreed from the time of the sons of Adam ... up to this day. I am not aware of its being prohibited by the laws of any sect, and no one need ask this question, the same being manifest to both high and low and requires no more demonstration than the light of day.

In the 19th century, the chains [of slavery] were metal. Today, the chains are debt—the worker has to repay his transportation, his tools, his food.

The traffic in slaves is a matter on which all sects and nations have agreed from the time of the sons of Adam ... up to this day.

It has been our experience, that free men are often seduced by sinister practices, enslaved, and transported, which can thus be prevented