“Many humans would experiment on nonhumans in the hope of saving a loved one, and they would just as readily experiment on humans to sustain that same hope.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“We are morally required to stop systematically exploiting others, whether chimpanzees or pygmy lemurs, chickens or chinchillas. Nonhuman animals are also persons who fare better or worse depending on the way we treat them, we must begin to give them the respect and dignity that persons deserve”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy.”
Source: The Problem of Pain
“Might does not make right; self-interest—even desperate self-interest—does not justify exploiting others.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“Humans are not the pinnacle of evolution we imagine ourselves to be.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“If we are going to save endangered primates, we must first recognize that they are individuals much like human beings, who prefer to be free to live their lives independent of exploitation.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“Nonhuman primates are many and wondrous, yet few and endangered.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“Our efforts to protect primates will be much more effective if we dismantle the artificial line that we have created between ourselves and other animals.”
Source: Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary
“Susan’s and Jennifer’s job searches are likely made harder by the color of their skin. In the early 2000s, researchers in Chicago and Boston mailed out fake résumés to hundreds of employers, varying only the names of the applicants, but choosing names that would be seen as identifiably black or white. Strikingly, “Emily” and “Brendan” were 50 percent more likely to get called for an interview than “Lakisha” and “Jamal.” A few years later, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin conducted a similar study in Milwaukee, but with a unique twist. She recruited two black and two white actors (college students, posing as high school graduates) who were as similar as possible in every way. She sent these “job applicants” out in pairs, with virtually identical fake résumés, to apply for entry-level jobs. Her twist was to instruct one of the white and one of the black applicants to tell employers that they had a felony conviction and had just been released from prison the month before. Even the researcher was surprised by what she found: the white applicant with a felony conviction was more likely to get a positive response from a prospective employer than the black applicant with no criminal record. When the study was replicated in New York City a few years later, she and her colleagues saw similar results for Latino applicants relative to whites.”
Source: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
“Revised regulations will never suppress federal workplace retaliation; nor will it cure the inaction of an EEOC official when justice demands fair, prompt and judicious decision-making.”