Quotations

“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 Hussein Obama (American politician who served as 44th President of the United States)

“What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?”

Dillon Burroughs (An American writer)

“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 (An American actress and singer)

“The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to the illegal trade of drugs and arms.”

David Batstone (An ethics professor at the University of San Francisco)

“No matter what chains are broken, slavery is a condition of the heart.”

Marquita Burke-DeJesus (A radically ordinary woman and author from Los Angeles)

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”

Rachel Carson (American marine biologist and catalyst for the modern environmental movement and author of Silent Spring)

“One individual cannot possibly make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference – all the difference in the world!”

Dr. Jane Goodall (British primatologist and anthropologist))

“Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree.”

Wangari Maathai (Kenyan environmental political activist and Nobel Peace Prize; author of Unbowed)

“Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.”

Frances Moore Lappé (American researcher and writer in the area of food and democracy policy; author of Diet for a Small Planet)

“Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.”

Dr. Sylvia Earle (American oceanographer and author of The World is Blue)