Gary L. Francione Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• 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 right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Fundamentals, Moral

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

  Gary L. Francione

  Compassion, Should Have, Treated

• Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Treatment, Torture

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.69, Columbia University Press

• Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.

  Gary L. Francione

  Kings, Gay, Animal

• 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.

  Gary L. Francione

  Purpose, Use, Resources

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