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Quotes About Exploitation

And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.
~ Alfred Molina
Is it exploitative to get the victim of an unimaginably horrific crime to talk on my show 'Crime Stories?' No, it's crucial.
~ Robert Rinder
I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.
~ Janet Varney
In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
~ Malala Yousafzai
Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
~ Blake Farenthold
We need a memorial day to commemorate the victims of neoliberal globalization.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.
~ Tamron Hall
Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.
~ Bill Flores
Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.
~ Loretta Lynch
Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.
~ Connie Sellecca
There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today — that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.
~ Lisa Kristine
Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller
~ Unknown
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption by Barbara Bisantz Raymond
~ Unknown
Usually, the foreman found some reason to hold back some of Rusty's check, because Rusty'd showed up a few minutes late, or broke some tool, or something. He knew Rusty couldn't say anything about it, any more than all the illegals who worked down there could. Some folks just have to keep their heads down and take it, even if it's not fair, because they don't have anywhere else to go.
~ Unknown
In a society not characterised by class exploitation, the relationship between the processes of surplus-production and reproduction of labour-power is qualitatively distinct from that characterising societies in which exploitation dominates...surplus-labour is identified by the nature of its contribution to social reproduction, not by the fact that it is provately appropriated.
~ Unknown
There are those who want things made worse, not better, so that they can scavenge on the remnants. Remember what you know already: the human world is filled with predators.
~ Liz Williams
By "developing" the planet, we have been reducing Earth to a new type of barrenness.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
We were just somethin' for you and your friends to play with.
~ Lorenzo Carcaterra
You can do so much with body posture, facial expressions. You can exude confidence, appear as though you own this world. It's our mockery of those who think they do, and who exploit others.
~ Unknown
This process, one of trading the state to outside owners in exchange for their (it now seems) entirely temporary agreement to enrich us, in toher words the pauperization of California, had in fact begun at the time Americans first entered the state, took what they could, and, abetted by the native weekness for boosterism, set about selling the rest.
~ Joan Didion
I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.
~ Donna Rice
Anyone who allows other people to control and guide their destiny will eventually become bitter and feel used and taken advantage of.
~ Unknown
almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, and that considerable suffering hangs on those necklace strings.
~ Victoria Finlay
I pitied the French for their naïveté in believing they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much more efficient, imagining the countries it wanted to exploit.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen