30 Quotes by Kevin Bales

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.

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 slave population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.

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

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.

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

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

The frictionless genius of our creative class, which we see every day in our lives and in advertising, leads us to support environmental destruction and human enslavement that we never see.

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.