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Quote by Albert Schweitzer

“No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.”

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Albert Schweitzer, born on January 14, 1875, and died on September 4, 1965, was a German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He is renowned for his missionary work in Africa. more

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.”

“It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding many people have about animals today. When slaves were brought over from Africa, many people believed they were not humans, that they didn't have feelings. Many people believe that primates and other animals don't have feelings, too, but they do.”

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Author:Jane Goodall

“We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs!”

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Author:William Kunstler

“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.”

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Book:Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition

Source: Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition

“Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.”

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Author:George Schaller

“We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.”

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Author:Gary L. Francione

“An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'”

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Author:Anatole France

“The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community.”

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Author:Thomas Berry

“But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.”

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Author:Alice Walker

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