Kevin Bales

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

— Kevin Bales

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based,…

— Kevin Bales

There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put…

— Kevin Bales

“Slavery is not a horror safely confined to the past; it continues to exist throughout the world, even in developed countries like…

— Kevin Bales

The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so…

— Kevin Bales

It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.

— Kevin Bales

For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is…

— Kevin Bales

Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present…

— Kevin Bales

The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

— Kevin Bales

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 is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children…

— Kevin Bales

It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And…

— Kevin Bales

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing.…

— Kevin Bales

“…consumers do look for bargains, and they don’t usually stop to ask why a product is so cheap. We have to face…

— Kevin Bales

We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.

— Kevin Bales

Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead…

— Kevin Bales

“When the police become criminals, slavery can take root.”

— Kevin Bales

Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an…

— Kevin Bales

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.

— Kevin Bales

Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23…

— Kevin Bales