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.

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

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.

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

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

The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life.

It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.