Top 126 Trafficking Quotes & Sayings

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

There's so much more to Colombia than drug trafficking, you have no idea. They're a bit worn out by the association.

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

In the United States there are only two exceptions: banks have to report deposits they suspect to be related to either terrorism or drug trafficking. But if your funds derive from trafficking women and children for sexual exploitation, for example, or from illegal arms trafficking or any other illegal activity, then banks in the US are legally free to accept your money and are not required to report your deposit to the authorities.

I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters.

I want a society free of human trafficking

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must project its values and protect vulnerable persons.

We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.

January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, a time to recognize that this evil affects communities all over the world, including here in Nevada.

Selling the commodity of humans has to be the biggest business out there, as it is the most lucrative. I cannot go to sleep at night, unless I know that I am using all of my platforms to fight human trafficking.

Human trafficking is a communitywide problem, and as such, it requires communitywide solutions.

Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.

What matters to the evangelical community is Supreme Court justices, economy, religious liberty, Israel, lower courts, human trafficking and abortion.

Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

Young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking face an incredible climb as they try and exit the commercial sex industry and develop to their full potential.

In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!

The fight against drug trafficking by the Colombian government has been present, and the Americans themselves are the first to recognize that.

The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.

There are two facets to the CIA's management and control of international drug trafficking, on behalf of the corporate interests that rule America. It's important to note that the US government's involvement in drug trafficking began before the CIA existed, as a means of controlling states, as well as the political and social movements within them, including America.

Drug and human traffic are getting a lot more attention than illicit wildlife trafficking. And just as we need to intensify our efforts to combat drug trade and human trafficking, we also need to intensify our efforts to combat illicit wildlife trafficking...They all need to be addressed through bold and consistent actions by the international community.

I think on all the debate on immigration, and all of that, the class of person that should be given the benefit of the doubt is the genuine refugee that is just in real desperate strait. Some of them are in the United States illegally because of [human] trafficking. They were caught up in trafficking, and you can argue to what extent it's their fault, to what extent they didn't know what they were getting into.

Technology's role in human trafficking cannot be ignored. But if we focus on how to prevent human trafficking, technology also has a powerful role. Like Ashton Kutcher's app Thorn, which directly spots human trafficking and connects you with officials.

I completely support Ravi Kishan ji's remarks about saving youth from the problem of drug trafficking/addiction.

When we look at human trafficking, we always think that it's far away from us.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

We have a moral obligation to raise awareness and educate those around us so we can create a world where human trafficking is a thing of the past, and bring these human rights violations to an immediate end.

The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.

Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year.

By patrolling our borders, we can take a proactive stand against human trafficking, violence, terrorism, and illegal immigration from spiraling out of control.

My government will continue mounting a real fight against the trafficking of marijuana and all other drugs.

In reality, victims of human trafficking are often left voiceless and completely unseen by society.

Girls should be made aware of the dark reality of human trafficking, right from a young age. High schools and colleges should provide this education, too.

Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.

The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.

In 2016, I worked on a film called 'Love Sonia,' which was based on human trafficking. While researching on it, I came to understand how privileged I am.

The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.

Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short, it's modern day slavery.

We tend to think of human trafficking as a foreign issue, not something that could happen here in our own back yards. But it's a fast-growing problem in the United States, in every area, with no real defined demographic.

The people of this nation are eminently a trafficking people; and the present standard of honesty, as to trade and debts, is very low, and every year seems sinking still lower.

Unfortunately, in this Obama Government, we have charges of drug trafficking and terrorism. For Evo, it's drug trafficking. For Hugo, it's terrorism. Evo Morales, drug trafficking. Hugo Chavez, terrorism.

We all have our own narrative of what human trafficking is supposed to be, but if you do a little research, human trafficking happens, in many different forms and shapes, right in our backyard.

Unfortunately, in Nevada - and more specifically, in Las Vegas and Reno - we've experienced incidents of human trafficking. In Las Vegas, the average trafficking victim is as young as 14. We must act to prevent this disturbing criminal activity from occurring in our communities.

Our duty as concerned citizens is to educate ourselves so that we can recognize and report trafficking to the proper authorities.

Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.

It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality.

If we truly want to have world peace, we have to end human trafficking.

Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.

The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.

During the past few years North East India has emerged as one of the biggest destinations for child trafficking.

The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.

We do know that the Bandido gang in Houston does drug deal. There are a bunch of people being convicted for heavyweight narcotics trafficking from the gang.

When the United States was in control of counternarcotics, the US governments used drug trafficking for purely geopolitical purposes .... The US uses drug trafficking and terrorism for political control .... We have nationalised the fight against drug trafficking.

Drug trafficking is an inherently dangerous and violent business.

When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.

I have worked positively and successfully with Senator Sessions on issues like adoption and human trafficking.

British leadership in Europol has made the law-enforcement agency far more effective, and we have been influential in making human trafficking one of its top priorities.