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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/slavery-is-not-a-horror-safely-confined-to-the-past-it-continues-to/)

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## More by Kevin Bales

> [Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/slavery-is-an-obscenity-it-is-not-just-stealing-someone-s-labor-it-is/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/if-you-look-at-slavery-across-all-human-history-and-you-sort-of-strip/)

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> [There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/there-are-more-slaves-alive-today-than-all-the-people-stolen-from/)

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> [“Slavery is not a horror safely confined to the past; it continues to exist throughout the world, even in developed countries like France and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/slavery-is-not-a-horror-safely-confined-to-the-past-it-continues-to/)

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> [The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/the-flow-of-people-into-the-united-states-into-slavery-it-follows-the/)

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> [It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/it-s-as-if-all-identity-has-been-stolen-from-them-except-their/)

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> [For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/for-some-slaves-the-first-step-out-of-bondage-is-to-learn-to-see/)

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> [Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/most-of-the-people-who-come-into-slavery-today-the-people-who-enter/)

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> [The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/the-factor-that-makes-people-extremely-vulnerable-to-enslavement-is/)

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> [We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/we-have-to-make-it-clear-to-the-multi-nationals-that-slavery-is-too/)

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> [Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/slavery-is-theft-theft-of-a-life-theft-of-work-theft-of-any-property/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/it-surprises-people-that-there-s-actually-a-very-large-number-of/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/slavery-is-what-slavery-s-always-been-about-one-person-controlling/)

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> [“…consumers do look for bargains, and they don’t usually stop to ask why a product is so cheap. We have to face facts: by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/consumers-do-look-for-bargains-and-they-don-t-usually-stop-to-ask-why/)

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> [We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-bales/we-re-up-at-almost-seven-billion-people-on-the-planet-and-most-of/)

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