Kevin Bales Quotes

Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

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

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 about

We have to make it clear to the multi-nationals that slavery is too high a price to pay for cheap goods

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

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

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

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

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

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 trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life.