Sheryl WuDunn Quotes

On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts to build societies in which slavery truly is a term for the history books.

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.

I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.

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.

I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit to help eliminate slavery around the world. These are huge issues for our fellow countrymen and our fellows in the world, where slavery is growing at an alarming rate, and it needs to be arrested.

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

We will make slavery history very soon. We will make child labor history very soon.

The slave trade must be suppressed.

The buying and selling of women, girls and boys is a frightening modern day form of slavery that must be stopped.

If we truly want to have world peace, we have to end human trafficking.

So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.

Human trafficking is a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity. It is time to join forces and work together to free its victims and to eradicate this crime that affects all of us, from individual families to the worldwide community.

Slavery can never be abolished.

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.

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

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

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

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.

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

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.

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

The commerce of this country is almost entirely confined to slaves

Slavery is the negation of all law, and any law which would perpetuate it would be a sacrilege.

There will be no peace in this land until slavery is ended.

This is about slavery.