In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor…

Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.

— Tony Robbins

“This was a particularly spectacular example of the German campaign to gather forced labor in the East, which had begun with the Poles of…

— Timothy Snyder

Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind…

— Nancy Mairs

A lot of the roads, bridges, railways, and such are built through the use of forced labor, and that is causing the people great…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“the International Labour Organization estimated that in 2012 there were 20.9 million people in forced labor worldwide, and 26 percent of those slaves were…

— Johnny Carr

“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not…

— Edward E. Baptist

Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous…

— Wagner Moura

The great evil of American slavery was involuntary servitude or forced labor. I really believe that the true evil of American slavery was the…

— Bryan Stevenson

“If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work”

— Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced…

— Hannah Arendt

Marx… Lenin… Mao Tse-Tung… These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure…

— Dorothy Day

There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people were…

— Edward Ball

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

— Robert Nozick

“The Tanakh teaches that, “The diligent will rule, while the lazy will be put to forced labor”. Most Jews work for themselves and hire…

— H.W. Charles

“An economy built on slave labor is vulnerable in two ways. One, availability of forced labor discourages technical innovation. The very wealthy [Roman]empire experienced…

— Norman F. Cantor