This is not how the world should be.
I'm also started reading the book, Terrify No More, by the President of International Justice Mission, Gary Haugen. Every time I read about the work that IJM is doing, I am just amazed at the work that they are doing. I also am made aware of just how much work there is to be done to stop injustice.
Here are some quotes that stuck with me on what I've read so far:
"Imagine what would happen if you walked into your local
police station with videotapes of elementary-school-age children in your
community being openly sold to customers for sex. What if you gave them
pictures, names, and addresses of those who were running the child-sex
business, along with little maps on how to find them? What would you expect to
happen? In Cambodia, we gave this information to the highest law enforcement authorities
in the country, who sat in offices not twenty miles away from where the
child-sex-ring was operating, and nothing happened. Nothing at all." (p. 13)
"While there are millions of girls and women victimized every
day, our work will always be about the one. The one girl deceived. The one girl
kidnapped. The one girl raped. The one girl infected with AIDS. The one girl
needing a rescuer. To succumb to the enormity of the problem is to fail the
one. And more is required of us." (p. 19)
"Standing with the oppressed, even in the face of personal
danger, is simply the only effective strategy for securing change and bringing
to life the deep hope that freedom is possible." (p.24)
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