David Batstone Quotes

#1. What else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love? ...

John Geddes

#2. I get my fuel and inspiration from children, they are our future.

David Batstone

#3. For our international projects we developed an online skilled volunteer job board to help connect skilled individuals around the world who can help with the projects. This is the cost effective channel to achieve a wider reach, which you wouldn't have been possible without technology.

David Batstone

#4. I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

Adrian Mitchell

#5. Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.

David Batstone

#6. I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world.

David Batstone

#7. I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.

David Batstone

#8. Technology is very important; it enables connection to one another, which is essential.

David Batstone

#9. I think it wasn't the Cirque du Soleil audition that was my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it's Rory.

Wendy S. Marcus

#10. The idea for Not For Sale originated as a simple brand to tell as many people as possible about what we are trying to achieve - "people are not for sale". The brand is a straight forward message and communicates the mission clearly.

David Batstone

#11. The main challenge Not For Sale is big and it is modern day slavery, which is a $32billion dollar industry second to the illegal trade of drugs and arms.

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#12. We have the power to help each other.

Amanda Palmer

#13. It circled back to her looks, as most snide comments did. Surely a pretty blond girl had to be shallow and dim-witted.

Kristin Hannah

#14. I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.

David Batstone

#15. I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from.

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#16. I was on a path, and I became determined to give it everything I had - no matter what.

Eleanor Brownn

#17. I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

Russell Means

#18. The initial spark that promoted me to start Not For Sale was human trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area. This led me to take a journey around the world on how this could exist in the 21st century.

David Batstone

#19. The dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water

Hakim Bey

#20. My aim is to integrate business connections into vulnerable communities thus creating jobs.

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#21. During 2007 "Not for Sale" was born from a problem I saw in Thailand. We established a basic level of care to the community there. Over the years our effective means of response has changed to help provide people with choices for the future.

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#22. I certainly don't want to have too many pre-conceived notions before I show up because then you might be cutting yourself off from the real lessons of what is going on.

Michael Shannon

#23. Father, so often I feel like the boy's father who first exclaimed, "I do believe!" then in a flood of sincerity cried out, "Help me overcome my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24) Please help me to overcome my own unbelief, Lord, so I can start taking You at Your Word.

Beth Moore

#24. She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.

Ernestine Rose

#25. Wherever I am in the world I want to be creating new projects and innovations, which are exciting and make a difference to communities.

David Batstone

#26. As an organisation [Not for Sale] we use social media on a daily basis as a way to share the impact of how our support is having on individuals and communities. By building awareness, education and updating interested parties on the progress of the projects.

David Batstone

#27. I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

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#28. Tell me how you deal with your fear of annihilation, and I will tell you about your philosophy.

Costica Bradatan

#29. I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Mira Nair

#30. Together we can make a difference and empower communities to be self sufficient.

David Batstone

#31. Shame isn't bad, her voice from somewhere else insists. Nor the humility that is its gift.

William Trevor

#32. The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

Tom Holt