Personal Declaration Quotes

“I write not because of the assumption that text is quiet. I write because Ramon Ontiveros Medina, the person who trafficked me, threatened to report me, arrest me, sue me, deport me, and kill me if I spoke about what he did to me. And by doing so, I am not only hoping that he realizes that writing does not necessarily entails speaking, but that you realize that he has been doing exactly what he promised, and that justice means nothing if I am already dead.
I don’t want you to use my name in the next human trafficking law, regulation, or policy. That does nothing for a dead body buried six feet under, or for a mourning family. I want to know what justice feels like while I am still alive. I want the protection that the law promised if I reported.”
― Samuel Martínez Roque