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,… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life. — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way,… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“Slavery is not a horror safely confined to the past; it continues to exist throughout the world, even in developed countries like France and… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves. — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law. — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
