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

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

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.

It is not the spirit of wealth, of learning, or of culture that can make the church of value, or a power for good in the world, but the spirit of Christ only.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money

If you love the life very much, you will see that everything is shining, everything is sparkling!

I am not going to sit here and say I am never going to drink again. That is not realistic.

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.