#rights

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#art

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story? ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#cruelty #violence

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear. ↗

— Ghassan Kanafani

#prisoners #resistance #short-story

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion in the only guarantee of morality. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#animals #barbarism #compassion #cruelty #morality

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#communication #companies #companion-animals #delusion #education

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#martin-luther-king-jr #slavery

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#slavery #slavery

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #ethical #francione #moral-imperative

Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember...a child is listening. ↗

— Mary Griffith

#equal-rights #gay #lesbian #plfag #equality

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. ↗

— Iris Marion Young

#breastfeeding #breasts #children #feminism #motherhood