Interview: Albert Einstein on Human Trafficking

by Amanda Kloer · 2009-07-13 07:00:00 UTC
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Each week, I will be bringing you a new interview with a formerly-active activist or abolitionist, that is, someone now deceased.  I'll be talking to the men and women who paved the way for the abolitionists of today and getting their thoughts on the problems and solutions of modern-day slavery.  How do I contact not just the dead, but the famous and dead?  Every good blogger must have her secrets!

This week... Albert Einstein

How's the afterlife treating you?

It is both relatively and infinitely better than I imagined.

For those non-biography readers out there, how about you tell me a little about yourself.

I was a theoretical physicist, best known for my theories of special relativity and general relativity, for which I reveiced the Nobel Prize in Physics.  I also advised many world leaders on political and religious issues not directly related to science.   

What do you think is the biggest problem in the modern-day abolitionist movement?

I think that as a movement, we do not have enough concrete knowledge of the problem to really address it.  Where are the scientifically formed statistics? Where are the tests of the effectiveness of anti-trafficking legislation.  Until we have more knowledge, we cannot help but flounder.

If you were alive, what would you do to fight slavery?

I would focus on gathering better information about slavery, where it happens, and who it happens to.  Until we understand the problem we cannot hope to reach a solution.

Any last thoughts for our readers?

Where on earth did you people find that picture of me with my tongue sticking out?

Amanda Kloer is a Change.org Editor and has been a full-time abolitionist in several capacities for seven years. Follow her on Twitter @endhumantraffic
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