weak laws that often punish the victim while letting the offender go free, and
weak law makers who are criminals themselves, and
callous peers who don't always care, and
traumatized victims who choose to go back, and
greed and violence and ignorance and anger.
It is easy to lose hope.
It is easy to give up.
But in 1800 there were abolitionists fighting for the end of slavery who
never lived to see the Emancipation Proclamation.
In 1863 there were abolitionists fighting for the end of slavery who
never lived to see the end of the war.
In 1865 there were abolitionists fighting for the end of slavery who
would not live 100 years to see the fruit of their efforts:
the Civil Rights Movement.
There were Civil Right's leaders in the 1960s who
never lived to see the 21st century,
to see how far we have come,
to see where their efforts brought us.
It would have been easy to lose hope.
It would have been easy to give up.
But they fought on. Because they fought, slavery is illegal in the United States today. Because they fought, legal racial discrimination was abolished.
Sometimes we may feel we're getting no where in our efforts to stop human trafficking. Sometimes we may feel we're alone in the fight. But we are getting somewhere and we are not alone. Our fight now will mean that in 60 years we have more just laws. Our fight now will mean that in 100 years human trafficking will have come to an end. We mustn't give up and we mustn't lose hope, as our work now is producing freedom for the future.
We can make a difference. We are making a difference.
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