Billions Quote by Kevin Bales

“We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.” quote by Kevin Bales — Download Open image

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

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Billion People Billions Developing Developing world Growth Growth Developing Has beens People Planet Growth Planets Seven Seven Billion World

More by Kevin Bales

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

Kevin Bales

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

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

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

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

Image

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

Kevin Bales

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

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

Image

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

Kevin Bales

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

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

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

Image

Explore all 20 Kevin Bales quotes

More Billions quotes

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Aesop Rock

Image

As far as Japan is concerned, I want to help all of our allies, but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. We…

Donald Trump

Image

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to…

Arthur Bloch

Image

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

Van Jones

Image

If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.

Tim LaHaye

Image

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars…

Muhammad Yunus

Image

Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to…

R. Scott Bakker

Image

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred…

Douglas Adams