Jordan Peele Quotes

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

It's modern-day slavery.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

All of us are called to fight #‎ humantraffickin g and #‎ slavery .

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

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.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

Chinese women in California are bought and sold for prostitution, and are treated worse than dogs; they are held in a most revolting condition of slavery.

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

It is all around us, hidden in plain sight. It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery.

Rigorously investigated and fearlessly reported, A Crime So Monstrous is a passionate and thorough examination of the appalling reality of human bondage in today's world. In his devastating narrative, Ben Skinner boldly casts light on the unthinkable, yet thriving, modern-day practice of slavery, exposing a global trade in human lives. The abuses detailed in these pages are repugnant, but there is hope to be found: by giving voice to the victims, Skinner helps restore their dignity and makes crucial strides toward closing this shameful chapter in history.

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.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

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

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

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

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.

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