I bought this book some time ago but only recently started to read it. Once I read the first couple pages I knew it was one of those books that I would read slowly because it was already so good and I tend to not want to finish them quickly so as to "savor" them if you will. Anyways, the first couple of chapters are focused on sexual slavery, sex trafficking, and forced prostitution. At the end of the chapter about saving women from these evils, the authors included a powerful Hawaiian parable that really struck a cord:
A man goes out to the beach and sees that it is covered with starfish that have washed up in the tide.
A little boy is walking along, picking them up and throwing them back into the water.
"What are you doing, son?" the man asks. "You see how many starfish there are? You'll never make a difference."
The boy paused thoughtfully, and picked up another starfish and threw it in the ocean. "It sure made a difference to that one," he said.
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