50 quotes found
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
“All sentient beings should have at least one rightthe right not to be treated as property”
“Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights mov...”
“Welfare reforms and the whole happy exploitation movement are not baby steps. They are big stepsin a seriously backward direction.”
“We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.”
“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”
“Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.”
“If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. Its a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment,...”
“Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral ri...”
“To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Deathhowever humaneis a harm for humans and non...”
“I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should be making if we really believe that animal exploitation is...”
“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interestsin being treated humanely, but that term is interpreted in large part to mean that we cannot impose unnecessary harm on ...”
“You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.”
“Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, ...”
“The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation and requires veganism as a matter of fundamental justice, is radically different from the welfar...”
“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established thro...”
“Then I will speak upon the ashes.”
“How grossly are they mistaken in imagining slavery to be disallowed by the Alcoran! Are not the two precepts, to quote no more, Masters treat your slaves with kindness: Slaves serve your masters wi...”
“You speak as though they cannot be trusted with freedom to build a future for themselves, given the opportunity. Certainly humanity as a whole shares a collective guilt for incompetency in crafting...”
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
