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

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.

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.

The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.

We are all like cells within the body of the Universe/ God—as are plants, animals, air, natural resources and everything down to a subatomic level.

I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!

Those who are enlightened never stop forging themselves.

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.