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birth, est. |
death (BC) |
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law & activ |
humor |
celeb |
| For many
years the media have been afraid of the Goliath power of the meat
industry. (But David is coming!) |
Fitzgerald, Pegeen |
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| People
who wear fur coats and get paint on them? F--- 'em. It may not be
pleasant, but they've contributed to something so awful that I feel
like it's justified. |
Affleck, Casey |
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| A society
that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both
and deserve neither. |
Jefferson, Thomas |
3rd U.S. President, chief draft of
the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution |
1743 |
1826 |
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y |
| How long
can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying -
before you ask yourself why? |
Browne, Jackson |
musician |
1980 |
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y |
| If a
nation expects to be both ignorant and free in a state of
civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. |
Jefferson, Thomas |
3rd U.S. President, chief draft of
the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution |
1743 |
1826 |
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y |
| If
something makes you cry; you have to do something about it. That's
the difference between politics and guilt. I have news for the
forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has
come - and gone. |
Clinton, William Jefferson |
42nd US President |
1946 |
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y |
| It is the
fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first
acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that black men
were really human beings and ought to be treated as such. What was
once foolish has now become a recognized truth. Today it is
considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every
form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But
the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race
existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life
is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form
extended responsibility to everything that has life. |
Schweitzer, Rev. Dr. Albert |
German physician, author, Nobel
Peace Prize 1952 |
1875 |
1965 |
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y |
| It is the
first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. |
Franklin, Benjamin |
U.S. statesman |
1706 |
1790 |
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y |
| Let no
one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do
against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance,
and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each
of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total
of all those acts will be written the history of a generation. |
Kennedy. Robert F. |
U.S. Senator |
1925 |
1968 |
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y |
| Loyalty
to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human
soul. |
Twain, Mark |
wrote Tom Saywer &
Huckleberry Finn |
1835 |
1910 |
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1 |
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y |
| Reason
and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. |
Jefferson, Thomas |
3rd U.S. President, chief draft of
the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution |
1743 |
1826 |
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1 |
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y |
| The
important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Einstein, Albert |
German physicist, Nobel prize 1921.
His Theory of Relativity laid the foundation for our understanding
of physical reality. |
1879 |
1955 |
vegetarian .. took a tiny bite of
meat once a year on a Jewish holiday to mollify his wife. |
1 |
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y |
| Those who
would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
Franklin, Benjamin |
U.S. statesman |
1706 |
1790 |
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1 |
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y |
| You
cannot run away from awareness; you must some time fight it out or
perish. And if you be so, why not now and where you stand? |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Scottish author, Treasure Isl., Dr.
Jekyll & Hyde |
1850 |
1894 |
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1 |
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y |
| All that
is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. |
Burke, Edmund |
British statesman, philosopher |
1729 |
1797 |
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| Animal
rights has never been about equal rights, but about least harm and
rights as fits the species. So a chicken does not need the right to
vote, but perhaps should have the right to spread her wings, which
is a right that is not applicable to humans. |
Loewenthal, Gary |
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| Animals
cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent
them? Let us all feel their cry of agony and let us all help that
cry to be heard in the world. |
Arundale, Rukmini Devi |
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| Each
snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty. |
Lee, Stanislaw J. |
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| Every
civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as 'sentimental',
'impractical', or 'womanish', etc., by those whose fun, profit or
convenience was at stake. |
Gilbert, Joan |
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1931- |
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| Every
society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. |
McLaughlin, Mignon |
author |
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| I believe
that where the true spirit of government is watchfully attended to,
a tenderness toward all creatures will be experienced, and a care
felt in us that we do not lessen that sweetness of life in the
animal creation which the Great Creator intends for them under our
government. |
Woolman, John |
American colonist, Quaker
theologian, abolitionist |
1720 |
1772 |
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| I have
enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others,
but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the
exhortation in favour of non-injury to life and abstention from
killing all living beings. |
Asoka |
King of India |
(273) |
(232) |
from Asoka's Edicts |
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| If there
is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour
freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want rain
without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar
of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It
never did and it never will. |
Douglass, Frederick |
slavery abolitionist, U.S. |
1818 |
1895 |
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| If we are
trespassing, so were the American Soldiers who broke down the gates
of Hitler's death camps; If we are thieves, so were the members of
the Underground Railroad who freed the slaves of the South; and if
we are vandals, so were those who destroyed forever the gas chambers
of Buchenwald and Auschwitz. |
ALF member |
American |
1975 |
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| In
matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. |
Gandhi, Mahatma |
Indian statesman |
1869 |
1948 |
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| It does
not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless
minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. |
Adams, Samuel |
Revolutionary War leader, gov. of
Mass. |
1722 |
1803 |
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| It is
never governments or well funded organizations that affect
revolutionary change, but the common people, unwilling to sit back
any longer and watch the animals they love be destroyed. |
Coronado, Rod |
ALF member |
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2005 |
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| It's
interesting that we're in jail and the murderers are outside. (The
Animal Liberation Front includes industrial agents of vivisection,
fur, meat trades etc, who seek to involve the group in the tarbrush
of violence and to deflect rivers of energy into sand. The best way
to change animal suffering in the world is to stop eating and using
animals and to convince others. Nevertheless, God has a different
work for each soul, different drummer thoughts for each mind,
freedom of conscience and freedom to disobey civilly.) |
Medina |
releaser of animals in a mink farm |
1998 |
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| Necessity
is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the
argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. |
Pitt, William |
British Prime Minister |
1759 |
1806 |
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| Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. |
Mead, Margaret |
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| Nonhumans
will continue to be exploited until there is a revolution of the
human spirit, and that will not happen without visionaries trying to
change the paradigm that has become accustomed to and tolerant of
patriarchal violence. |
Francione, Gary |
law professor |
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| Nothing
is more powerful than an individual acting out of her (or his) own
conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life. |
Cousins, Norman |
American author,
Anatomy of an Illness |
1915 |
1990 |
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| Some
folks insist that believing in animal rights is like a cult religion. But
religions ask followers to believe in things nobody can see, while
animal rights advocates ask followers to see things nobody can
believe. |
Burton, Craig |
US novelist, "A Hatful of Pain" |
1949 |
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| Take
sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence
encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. |
Wiesel, Elie |
writer, Nobel laureate |
1928 |
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| The
animal rights movement is "part of a revolutionary process aimed at
restructuring the major institution of society." |
Morgan, Dr. |
Mobilization for Animals |
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| The
liberation of animal life can only be achieved through the radical
transformation of human consciousness and the overthrow of the
existing power structure. |
Transpecies Unlimited |
Chicago area |
1993 |
now |
Now called "Animal Rights
Mobilization" (ARM) |
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The
position we hold-the abolitionist position-is often said to be
"extreme," and those of us who hold it are said to be "extremists."
The unspoken suggestions are that extreme positions cannot be right
and that extremists must be wrong.
But I am an extremist when it comes to rape-I am against it all the
time. I am an extremist when it comes to child abuse- I am against
it all the time. I am an extremist when it comes to sexual
discrimination, racial discrimination-I am against it all the time.
I am an extremist when it comes to abuse of the elderly- I am
against it all the time. The plain fact is, moral truth often is
extreme, and must be, for when the injustice is absolute, then one
must oppose it-absolutely. |
Regan, Tom |
professor of philosophy, NC State.
Wrote Case for Animal Rights |
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www.lib.ncsu.edu/arights/ |
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| The
ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge
and controversy. |
King, Martin Luther Jr. |
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| Never be
afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person
or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to
the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. |
King, Martin Luther Jr. |
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| There are
a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at
the root. |
Thoreau, Henry David |
essayist and poet |
1817 |
1862 |
from Walden, 1854 |
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| There may
be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must
never be a time when we fail to protest. |
Wiesel, Elie |
writer, Nobel laureate |
1928 |
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| Until
lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify
the hunter. |
African proverb |
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| Until we
can own our centuries old distortion of God's word, we will probably
never really move off the dime in current distortions of God's word.
There is no special merit in declaring that what we hold now is part
of the "faith once delivered to the saints" or "the church's
teaching from the beginning." We have been consistently right in
some things -- consistently wrong in others. I believe... that our
"teaching" has often been racist and misogynist -- not always
through our documents, but with winks, jokes, the language of our
prayers, exclusionary policies and actions and the toleration of
domestic violence and violence against minorities. This is not
rocket science. When we do not intervene in long patterns of abuse,
we tolerate and support that abuse -- and our silence speaks our
doctrine, doesn't it? |
Woodward, Rev. Tom |
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2005 |
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| We live
in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty
of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can
influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it
was before he entered it. |
Huxley, Thomas |
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1825 |
1895 |
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| Why do we
make one reform topic a hobby and forget all others? Mercy,
Prohibition, Vegetarianism, Woman's Suffrage and Peace would make
Old Earth a paradise, and yet the majority advocate but one, if any,
of these. |
Neff, Flora T. |
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| You are
not required to complete the task of repairing the world, neither
are you free to abstain from it. |
Avot, Pirke |
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| I have
from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come
when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now
look on the murder of men. |
Da Vinci, Leonardo |
artist, scientist |
1452 |
1519 |
fervent vegetarian that was known
for purchasing live birds from market to set them free |
2 |
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| The Anti-Vivisector
does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take
chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge
by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal
methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from
the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving
off two dogs or American tourists. |
Shaw, George Bernard |
Irish playwright, Nobel prize 1925 |
1856 |
1950 |
vegetarian |
2 |
3 |
y |
| The
reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less
strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the
most brutal part of mankind - the animals. |
Mill, John Stuart |
British philosopher, a founder of
utilitarianism |
1806 |
1873 |
In discussing the need for child
labor laws |
2 |
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y |
| Family
farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to
feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap
grain policy of this nation and has made the Beef Cartel the biggest
hog at the trough. |
Lyman, Howard |
Director of Beyond Beef,
former lobbyist for Farmers Union |
1938 |
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| The
dissolution of commercial animal farming as we know it obviously
requires more than our individual commitment to vegetarianism. To
refuse on principle to buy products of the meat industry is to do
what is right, but it is not to do enough. To recognize the rights
of animals is to recognize the related duty to defend them against
those who violate their rights, and to discharge this duty requires
more than our individual abstention. It requires acting to bring
about those changes that are necessary if the rights of these
animals are not to be violated. Fundamentally, then, it requires a
revolution in our culture's thought about, and its accepted
treatment of, farm animals... But prejudices die hard, all the more
so when they are insulated by widespread secular customs and
religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic
interests, and protected by the common law. To overcome the
collective entropy of those forces against change will not be easy.
The animal rights movement is not for the faint heart. |
Regan, Tom |
professor of philosophy, NC State.
Wrote Case for Animal Rights |
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www.lib.ncsu.edu/arights/ |
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| The oath
I took as an inspector said if I ever saw anything wrong I was
supposted to report it. But today I can't report anything.Today, if
you blow your whistle, you're in trouble with the inspection
service. I feel the oath I took is violated every day I work. |
Freeman, William |
former meat inspector |
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| Cruelty
has cursed the human family for countless ages. It is almost
impossible for one to be cruel to animals and kind to humans. If
children are permitted to be cruel to their pets and other animals,
they easily learn to get the same pleasure from the misery of
fellow-humans. Such tendencies can easily lead to crime. |
McGrand, Fred A. |
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1895 |
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2 |
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| Most of
us are able to obtain an abundance of nonflesh foods that can keep
us robustly healthy our whole lives. With such a variety of
nonanimal foods available, who would choose to support the slaughter
mills and foster the misery involved in factory farming by
continuing to eat flesh? . . . It is sad to see how many American
Buddhists are managing to find a self-satisfying accommodation to
eating meat . . . [In the first Bodhisattva vow of Mahayana
Buddhism] we commit our compassion to all beings, not just humans.
Eschewing meat is one way to express that commitment to the welfare
of other creatures. |
Kjolhede, Bodhin |
Abbot of the Rochester Zen Center
and Zen master |
1994 |
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from The
Buddhist Review |
2 |
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| Out of
135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when
they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals. |
Ogonyok |
Soviet anti-cruelty magazine |
1979 |
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2 |
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| The
recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific,
and tainted standards (in a speech about his bill backed by 37
senators to reduce the power of the FDA) |
Proxmire, William |
U.S. Senator |
1990 |
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2 |
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| The
standard four food groups are based on American agricultural
lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National
Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an
extremely powerful meat lobby. |
Nestle, Marion |
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2 |
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| The
tzaddik (righteous person) acts according to the laws of justice;
not only does he act according to these laws with human beings, but
also with animals. |
Michel, Rabbi Meir Leibush ben
Yechiel |
chief Rabbi of Romania |
1809 |
1887 |
important Jewish Biblical
commentator |
2 |
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| We should
be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of
sentient beings. |
Gandhi, Mahatma |
Indian statesman |
1869 |
1948 |
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2 |
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| 100,000
cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These
cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not
only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has
banned this practice. The U.S has not yet. |
Lyman, Howard |
Director of Beyond Beef,
former lobbyist for Farmers Union |
1938 |
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| An
infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have
practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without
shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings? |
Johnson, Samuel |
British novelist, author the first
dictionary of the English language |
1709 |
1784 |
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