The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law. — 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 the United States. Across the world slaves work and sweat and build and suffer. Slaves in Pakistan may have made the shoes you are wearing and the carpet you stand on. Slaves in the Caribbean may… — Kevin Bales Copy Share
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
