Human Trafficking Quotes

“But whenever tragedy strikes, one is left either to die or with a plethora of ifs and buts to ponder over.”
― Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary, Laiza- Sometimes the end is only a Beginning

“Now you understand how people like us work?”
“I believe so.”
“Tell me.”
“You work in horrible conditions and—”
“No! We work in our graves.”
― Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

“Culture is no excuse for abuse”
― Davinder Kaur, FORCED TO MARRY HIM: A Lifetime of Tradition and the Will to Break It

“The good news is that a victim of human trafficking does not have to remain a victim.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Bad times are just an illusion for the good times to show their face.”
― Michael Allen, The Deeper Dark

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― Paige Edwards

“There is one absolute commonality amongst the victims of human trafficking; the loss of personal freedom.”
― Asa Don Brown

“What freedom are we to find
when our restless minds
are enslaved under the chains
of human trafficking?

What freedom do we preach
when our females breathe
through enraged wounds?
They are used and abused,
left in caves alienated and bruised.

What is this language we speak of
when we talk about the law,
since the human right clause
is ignored and flawed?
Whom is it protecting
because here we are protesting?

Isn't this law ought to save
the bodies of young females?
Isn't this law ought to be brave
and remove females from sex frames?
Instead, it chooses for women and children to die
leaving their loved ones with no goodbyes.

Human trafficking, I say,
has made enough money for the day.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“All too often, the victims of smuggling and trafficking are encouraged to engage in the use of illegal substances.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Real men don't steal and sell kids as commodities.”
― A.J. Sky, Firestorm

“She listened to the silence. Her first thought was relief. He's gone. Her second thought was utter devastation. He didn't kill me.”
― Catherine Brusk, What Love Washed Up

“Children need to be taught about forced marriage and how an arranged wedding can be a forced marriage if either party doesn't freely consent to it.”
― Davinder Kaur, FORCED TO MARRY HIM: A Lifetime of Tradition and the Will to Break It

“Recent research has shown that traffickers are no longer just kidnapping individuals off of the street, but they are now employing new tactics to find their potential victims.”
― Asa Don Brown

“It’s just a scar. He doesn’t own me anymore.”
― A.J. Sky, Firestorm

“The Power of Awareness is working! It is proven by increased sentencing and understanding of the Sex Trafficking Problem by Judges, Prosecutors, and Jurors.”
― Heidi Chance

“What if I make it through this, so damaged that the rest of my life is a living hell? A graphic rerun of everything I survived, but over and over and over again?” She inhaled a shuddering breath. “So every single detail—that was already burned into my brain and every inch of my body—gets worked in like oil on a cutting board!” Tears dribbled down her face. “But I’m not a cutting board, Dakota, and what I went through in British Columbia was not oil to be worked in,” she whispered. “It was worse than dying, and I’m afraid that living after this will be a worse punishment than I ever imagined.” She shrugged one shoulder. “And I don’t think I’m up to the task.”
― Ashley Nikole, Fallout

“Who are these girls? Where do they come from? How do they end up on the street? Outsiders- and that includes most police officers, judges, the general public, and politicians- mistakenly believe that if these girls don't like what they are doing they can just walk away.
What a growing number of dedicated cops and community activists began to realize is that the illusion of choice is the biggest obstacle to getting people to see these girls as the victims they are. "In order to have a choice you need to have two viable options to choose from," says DIGNITY's Kathleen Mitchell. "The choice for these girls is not 'Do you want to turn a trick or do you want a wonderful life?' That's not even on the table."
Most girls on the tracks are running from something worse they faced at home. In survey after survey, in one city after another, statistics show that prostituted children suffer prior abuse as a staggeringly high rate.”
― Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them

“At any hour of the day or night, Stanton will get a call about the latest underage victim who was picked up in a prostitution bust or an undercover operation, and he makes his way to the detention center. He is always struck by how the girls change. When he first sees them in their "work outfits," they do not seem much like children, with skimpy dresses, daring hairdos, heavy makeup, and flashy nails. After they shower, clean up, and put on the detention center's sweatpants and tops, they lose their street-worn years. "Then it hits you, these are really just kids," Stanton says.
Invariably, the girls are not receptive to him, at least not at first. They are tough, and they are angry, and Stanton knows he has to be straight with them. "I never try to bullshit them," Stanton explains. "These kids are sharp. They have radar. Their lives depend on reading a man, be it a pimp or a trick, so they know when someone is lying to them. You really have to be genuine to earn their trust.”
― Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them

“Too often in the past, Garrabrant felt, some prosecutors were reluctant to take on complicated cases against pimps. "If I went to any federal prosecutor in the country and said, 'Listen, I have a thirteen-year-old girl who was kidnapped, forcibly taken from her home, and forced to have sex with a forty-year-old guy and then sold to other men,' they would be saying, 'Bring it on.' " But Garrabrant found that if he took the same scenario and instead described the girl as a prostitute working for a pimp, prosecutors got cold feet. Their attitude was that if some young girl wants to go do that, there is nothing to be done.”
― Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them

“The movie and the political campaign GEMS built around it were typical of [Rachel] Lloyd's in-your-face approach to politics and publicity. "If we just framed it as 'rescuing children,' people would give us more money," she says. "I could put pictures of little scared blond kids on our Web page. But this isn't about rescuing a child from a bad situation. This is about what we, as a culture and a society, are creating; why can this be perpetuated within our society?”
― Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them

“I tried to make my body as heavy as possible as I lay there on the frozen river”
― Laura Ling, Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home

“Come with me
to this backroom of grey
behind a fortress of blood and steel,
where girls who would be mothers,
are carted away, codeine eyed,
to quest the Holy Grail on alien soil
by women who should be mothers to them.”
― Valentine Okolo, I Will Be Silent

“The President, politicians and government officials will never stop something bad from happening or any criminal activities, Kidnapping, human trafficking, drugs, illegal immigrant, violence, vandalism, bribe, stealing, extortion, corruption, fraud, scams as long they are benefiting from it.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The kids separated from their parents suffer the same trauma as the victims of human trafficking, therefore the administration that conducts such savagery in the name of immigration law must face the same legal consequence as human traffickers do, and if law fails to hold them accountable, the people must do it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent

“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field, and a tractor racing across another, raking up a dust cloud behind in a brown jet stream.”
― Paul Alkazraji, The Migrant

“She had disappeared a long time ago. Stolen by someone else. Kip was wrong. She couldn't earn anything when she wasn't worth having.”
― Catherine Brusk, What Love Washed Up

“[in response to the idiotic Mike Brady Ted talk] OF COURSE immigrants are unemployable!!! Didn't they tell you? We win LOTTERIES! to come to this shithole.”
― Dmitry Dyatlov

“Some 120,000 girls were shipped into Minneapolis for last year’s Super Bowl, making it arguably the largest sex-trafficking event in the world.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“My soul was ready to gracefully slip through the memories of those I loved for a final goodbye before I took refuge in death…”
― Elly Magdaluyo, Say Nothing

“A Trafficker is the most reliable person you will ever meet!”
― Heidi Chance