Animal Rights Quotes - Page 20

• No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

  Murray Banks

  Animal, Pet, Needs

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• The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice for the animal kingdom come out into the open, when the time is ripe.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Animal, Justice, Intellectual

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• Back in the eighties, people thought a vegan was someone from Vegas. It's a different world now and I feel lucky to have been a part of the revolution, both for animal rights and gay rights.

  Dan Mathews

  Gay, Animal, Vegas

  "Senior VP of PETA Dan Mathews: On gay rights, empathy for animals, and getting married under the Las Vegas sign". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

  Shane Barbi

  Fighting, Animal, Rights

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• I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.

  William O. Douglas

  Animal, Men, Compassion

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• Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Animal, Men, Steps

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• I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.

  Abbie Cornish

  Animal, Voice, Rights

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• I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Rights, Judgmental

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• What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Pigs, Rabbits, Monkeys

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• Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about the hereafter we are the temporary custodians of the here-and-now, and if we neglect our obligations or abuse our powers then we abrogate any rights to a further share in this planet's delights.

  Densey Clyne

  Responsibility, Animal, Rights

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• (The animal rights movement) should be supported by all Christians. In an ecological universe, every created entity has intrinsic value because all are subjects as well as objects. As we cover more and more of the earth with our factories/ highways/ towns/parking lots, we annihilate more and more plants and animals.

  Charles Birch

  Christian, Animal, Rights

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• One animal or plant species may become extinct every hour. All species are doomed to extinction, but man through worldwide development/killing animals for food/profit/using toxic chemicals such as pesticides/industrial wastes, will accelerate the extinction of plants/animals and the result will be a more hostile environment for man.

  Erik P. Eckholm

  Men, Animal, Toxic

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• We are complete press sluts.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Presses

  "The New Yorker" Magazine, April 14, 2003.

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• We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good.

  Gary L. Francione

  Writing, Animal, Numbers

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• If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Rights, Ifs

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• I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals involved (the Golden Rule), and because they push the envelope, moving us closer to the compassionate world that all animal rights activists are working toward...On the other hand, working toward welfare reforms has the immediate benefit of helping improve animals' lives today and acts as a crucial stepping stone toward animal liberation.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Animal, Rights

  "Getting from A to Z: Why Animal Activists Should Support Incremental Reforms to Help Animals" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2011.

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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?

  Samuel Johnson

  Animal, Men, Shame

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• SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model with which you accompanied it, of Doctor Rush's answer to a similar inquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as a history of my own. Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating very little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Doctors, Hands

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.321

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• The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.

  Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf

  Animal, Compassion, Blood

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• The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Animal, Soul, Gains

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• Even animals who sometimes seem unlovable to humans, have also feelings. They can suffer just as we do.

  Sabrina Le Beauf

  Animal, Feelings, Suffering

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• But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.

  James Boswell

  Animal, Men, Suffering

  James Boswell (1791). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Two Volumes”, p.71

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• Above all, those to whom the care of young minds has been entrusted should see to it that they respect both the smallest and largest animals as beings which, like people, have been summoned to the joy of life.

  Samson Raphael Hirsch

  Animal, People, Joy

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• We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

  S. Parkes Cadman

  Father, Animal, Men

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• ...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Suffering And Death, Decision

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