Human Trafficking Quotes

• You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

  William Wilberforce

  Inspirational, Peace, Abolition Of Slavery

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• It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Common Humanity, Names

  President Barack Obama's remarks at Clinton Global Initiative at Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York City, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 23, 2014.

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• Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Patriotic, Justice

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• 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.

  Pope Francis

  Community, Humanity, Working Together

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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free the victims and stop this increasingly aggressive crime which threatens not only individuals but the basic values of society.

  Pope Francis

  Effort, Humanity, Crime

  Pope Francis' Address Of To The New Ambassadors Accredited To The Holy See On The Occasion Of The Presentation Of The Letters Of Credence, w2.vatican.va. December 12, 2013.

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

  Jason Mraz

  World, Want, Ends

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• I am only one,
  But still I am one.
  I cannot do everything,
  But still I can do something;
  And because I cannot do everything,
  I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Single

  "The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎" by Edwin Osgood Grover, (p. 28), 1909.

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• Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Children, Practice, Sweat

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• Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.

  Pope Francis

  Humanity, Body, Christ

  Address of Pope Francis to participants in the International Conference on Combating Human Trafficking, w2.vatican.va. April 10, 2014.

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• We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Inspirational, Rely Upon, Suffering

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• Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short, it's modern day slavery.

  Jen Lilley

  Purpose, Slavery, Modern

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• Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

  Condoleezza Rice

  Calling, Moral, Humans

  "U.S. Contractors Cited in Human Trafficking Report". "Day to Day" with Michele Kelemen, www.npr.org. June 6, 2006.

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• Just imagine what would happen if your daughter was standing there. What would you do, how would you fight? So you have to join hands, you have to take each child as your daughter. Soon you will feel their sorrow and then you will feel the strength that comes out of you to protect them.

  Anuradha Koirala

  Strength, Daughter, Children

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• Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

  William Wilberforce

  Inspirational, Silent, Said

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• Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year.

  Gillian Anderson

  Years, Pandemics, Dollars

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

  Mark Shields

  People, Tragedy, Outrage

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Slavery, Be A Slave

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Girl, Powerful

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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  Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Freedom

  Speech by minister Koenders at the presentation of the 2015 Human Rights Tulip, November 12, 2015.

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  Start where you are, use what you have.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "7 Most Touching Moments from Michael Sam's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award Speech" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. July 17, 2014.

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  If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

  William Wilberforce

  Inspirational, Challenges, Inspire

  "William Wilberforce". Book by William Hague, 2007.

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