Kevin Bales Quotes

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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 defining…
• 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 slavery's…
• It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.
• We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods
• 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…
• Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might…
• Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year…
• 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…
• Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.
• The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are…

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