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“Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.”

Humans Reason Age Sex Community Race Moral Racism Species Deny Protection Rejects Sexism Orientation Membership Sentient Beings Ageism Speciesism

Author:Gary L. Francione

“Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love.”

Needs Humans Persons Hands Sex Difficult Human Beings Powerful Existence Comfort Safety Impact Touched Associates Underestimate Infant Primal Human Hands

Book:Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files

Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files

“My frank response to all sex questions is that there is too much significance put on them to begin with. Sex is part of human nature, and I don't know why such a big deal is made out of it.”

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Author:John Travolta

“I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.”

Thinking Trying Humans Kind Sex Existence Essentials Bird Males Luxury Justify Desperation Feathers

Author:Orson Welles

“Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.”

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Book:The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison

Source: The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison

“It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.”

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Book:Course of popular lectures: with three addresses, on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures: with three addresses, on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.”

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Author:E. M. Forster

“Is it all right for the government to allow the murder of an innocent human being? From the moment of conception, a new life comes into being with a complete genetic blueprint. The sex is determined. The blood type is determined. The moment that I learned the unborn was not part of the woman's body but its own individual human being, I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.”

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Author:Kathy Ireland

“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.”

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Author:William S. Burroughs