Amanda Lindhout Quotes

Torture was necessary to maintain slavery. It was integral to slavery. You cannot have slavery without some torture or the threat of torture; and you cannot have torture without slavery. You cannot imprison a free man forever unless you have broken him; and you can only forcibly break a man's soul by torturing it out of him. Slavery dehumanizes; torture dehumanizes in exactly the same way. The torture of human beings who have no freedom and no recourse to the courts is slavery.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

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

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

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.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

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

Those who tortured me had no right to inflict such humiliation on a human being, physically upon my person, and morally upon themselves.

The very word torture is a disgrace to the human race.

We have been tortured horribly for months in filthy Egyptian jails.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

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

A slave has never maintained an action against the violator of his bed. A slave is not admonished for incontinence, or punished for fornication or adultery; never prosecuted for bigamy …

…the inflicting of pain, physical or mental, to extract confessions or statements... is widespread throughout the country.

I get angry when people push people around.