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

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.

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

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

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into 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