"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."

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Source : Kevin Bales (1999). “Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy”, p.9, Univ of California Press

Kevin Bales

#Israel Quotes #People Quotes #Live For Today Quotes

“I think if he [Donald Trump] goes to the super bowl, he thinks the guys in the huddle are talking about him.”

Source : "All In" with Chris Hayes, www.today.com. August 26, 2013.
“A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.”
“You go through the Sporting News for the last one hundred years, and you will find two things are always true. You never have enough pitching, and nobody ever made money.”
“I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.”

Source : Raoul Wallenberg (1995). “Letters and Dispatches, 1924-1944”, p.48, Arcade Publishing
“No one has success, until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold qualities of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness.”
“I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.”

Source : "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 206), 2004.
“One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.”
“Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.”

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