Top 35 Quotes About Sex Trafficking
#1. Anyone who believes we're living in a postfeminist age will learn that violence against females - from female infanticide and child marriage to honor killings and sex trafficking - has now produced a world with fewer females than males, a first in recorded history.
Gloria Steinem
#2. If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.
Gloria Steinem
#3. When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.
Jim Wallis
#4. In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
Nicholas D. Kristof
#5. To be discreet, '"he looked up to glare at Aethelflaed, "'chaste! Keepers of the home! Good! Obedient to their husbands!' Those are God's own words! That is what God demands of a woman! To be discreet, to be chaste, to be home-keepers, to be obedient! God spoke to us!
Bernard Cornwell
#6. Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Where do people get off telling people what to do? It's their bodies. If you legalized sex work and legally protected the sex workers, you wouldn't see anything like human trafficking. All of that would be obliterated.
Margaret Cho
#9. I cannot fail these girls by diverting my eyes from the invisible residue of slavery that clings to them like a shadow.
Marquita Burke-DeJesus
#10. I think there's so much that's not said about sex in the United States. Even from an educational level. And I do a lot of work on human trafficking and I connect a lot with girls that come up and end up in this trade and partially because of a lack of education about sex in the country.
Ashton Kutcher
#11. Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities.
Billy Graham
#12. I've been held down like a piece of meat while monsters disguised as men violated me again & again.
Gladys Lawson
#13. I hate all men associated with stealing children,selling & sleeping with children.
Gladys Lawson
#14. They may use my body but my mind is free. In my mind I escape.
Gladys Lawson
#15. The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
Norman Lear
#16. Rape is a vicious thing.It's not gentle or considerate.To the recipient it's violent & painful.
Gladys Lawson
#17. What all this adds up to is the view that nature is there as a resource to be used by man for his self-interest and profit. But, frugality being a virtue, the resource should be "conserved" as much as possible.
George Lakoff
#18. Prostitution has the same relationship to trafficking as sex has to rape. One is voluntary, the other is not
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#19. I filled in for Papa Roach because we weren't doing much. Unwritten Law had a few more shows booked, but I got the call to fill in again at the end of the year. I was like, "I have to make myself available to these guys."
Tony Palermo
#20. Perdu wanted Anna to feel that she was in a nest. He wanted her to sense the boundless possibilities offered by books. They would always be enough. They would never stop loving their readers. They were a fixed point in an otherwise unpredictable world. In life. In love. After death.
Nina George
#22. Did you ask to have sex with all those men? "Did you ask to be sold as a sex slave?
Gladys Lawson
#23. Don't let those wicked men win, don't let them destroy you!
Gladys Lawson
#24. Rescuing Elena plunged him into the nightmare world of people trafficking and sex slavery.... but as an ex-Royal Marine, he could handle it
David Zelder
#25. No wonder prostitution is so rampant in China, I mused as I watched the four girls watch us: why stand on your feet all day for slave wages when you can get rich on your back?
Tom Carter
#26. There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.
James Berardinelli
#27. I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.
Marcello Giordani
#29. Perhaps great fiction is in reality, deep hidden truths.
S.G. Savage
#30. I know that my future will be better than my past 'cos I believe & will act on my belief.
Gladys Lawson
#32. Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon.
L.M. Montgomery
#33. [S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.
Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl WuDunn
#34. Wicked men have done dirty things to u but never ever think that u are dirty!
Gladys Lawson
#35. Young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking face an incredible climb as they try and exit the commercial sex industry and develop to their full potential.
Stephanie Ellis