The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.

Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.

Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms.

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

We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods