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In the preface of "The Rifles" "Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going to use for food or clothing." Barnabas Piryuaq "Well, in those high latitudes we found such quantities of seals and walruses that we simply did not know what to do with them.There were thousands and thousands lying there; we walked among them and hit them on the head, and laughed heartily in the abundance which God had created." Jan Welzi 1933. ↗


— William T. Vollmann


#environment #hunters #native-americans #slaughter #violence

We generally accept that it's natural for carnivorous wild animals to kill other animals in order to live. But people don't often think (or even know) about the extraordinary and unnatural suffering that humans inflict on the animals that we freely harvest for food, with the help of modern high technology and the animal food sciences. ↗


— Marc Bekoff


#food #speciesism #vegan #food

[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90) ↗


— Stephen Levine


#letting-go #self-righteousness #suffering #forgiveness

We support President Truman's civil rights program. ↗


— Eugenie Anderson


#civil rights #president #program #rights #support

You have right to be angry, insult and slap. But later you have to forgive. ↗


— M.F. Moonzajer


#insult #right #slap #forgiveness

The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding. ↗


— James Alison


#mortality #original-sin #forgiveness

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American -- our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. ↗


— Jon Stewart


#civil-rights #funny #patriot-act #freedom

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. ↗


— Joseph Heller


#ironic #rights #war #wwii #yossarian

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. ↗


— James Madison


#constitution #freedom #right-to-bear-arms #second-amendment #freedom

ثمة شيء ننساه في زحمة التسابق على حفظ الجُمل الثورية الجميلة. هذا الشيء هو الكرامة الإنسانية. ليس وطني دائماً على حق. ولكنني لا أستطيع أن أمارس حقاً حقيقياً إلا في وطني. ↗


— محمود درويش


#freedom #homeland #rights #freedom






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