Kevin Bales famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.
-- Kevin Bales

#Children #Slavery #Might
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
-- Kevin Bales

#Slavery #Stealing #Obscenity
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
-- Kevin Bales

#Slavery #Pay #Clear
Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about
-- Kevin Bales

#Slavery #Violence #Persons
The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life.
-- Kevin Bales

#People #Trying #Immigration
Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.
-- Kevin Bales

#Confused #Book #Games
Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.
-- Kevin Bales

#Valentine #Ocean #Years
There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.
-- Kevin Bales

#Israel #People #Live For Today
For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.
-- Kevin Bales

#Eye #Reality #World
It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.
-- Kevin Bales

#Identity #Slavery #Slave
It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing.
-- Kevin Bales

#Talking #Numbers #People

You may also like:

AnnaLynne McCord
Actress
Bill Hybels
Author
Gary Haugen
Author
Greg Mortenson
Humanitarian
Lisa Kristine
Photographer
Louie Giglio
Pastor
Melissa Farley
Clinical psychologist
Nicholas D. Kristof
Journalist
Petra Nemcova
Model
Pol Pot
Political leader
Rachel Lloyd
Executive
Rigoberta Menchu
Author
Sara Groves
Singer
Shane Claiborne
Author
Sheryl WuDunn
Writer
Somaly Mam
Author
Sunitha Krishnan
Social activist
William Wilberforce
British Politician
Zach Hunter
David Batstone
Journalist