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In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in…

— Jen Lilley

“Slavery is as old as civilization, and has been practiced all over the world. It was ubiquitous in antiquity, and is taken for granted…

— David Livingstone Smith

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the…

— Anonymous

Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community,…

— Hillary Clinton

“We were born to serve humanity, not to slave for society”

— Stephan Attia

For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social…

— Kevin Bales

“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery,…

— Timothy Keller

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them…

— William H. Seward

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

— John Stuart Mill

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil…

— Robert E. Lee

Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess…

— Richard Henry Lee

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen