Jacky Rosen Quotes

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

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?

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

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

I cannot ignore this reality, and I encourage my all colleagues to join me in this fight to end modern day slavery in our own backyard.

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.

When I was 12, I read about Iqbal Masih, a child slave who escaped the carpet factory where he'd been chained to a loom since the age of four. Iqbal led an anti-child labor crusade that made global headlines, including the one that first caught my attention.

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.

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

Slavery can never be abolished.

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.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

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.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

Prostitution, pedophilia, and child abuse are of concern to us and it is important that while we advertise tourism, we should also educate our people in keeping a close vigil on what is happening as the side effect of tourism.

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

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

This is about slavery.

[Describing slavery:] ... a cruel war against human nature itself.