Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods

It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.

The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.

The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life.

A man needs only his daily bread.

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.

If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.

The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.