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“Only those who have been on the receiving end of poverty, unemployment, homelessess, mental illness, domestic violence, racism, sexism or ageism can fully identify with others' reactions to those distressing experiences. Only those who have been members of marginalised minority can fully appreciate how that feels. [p50]”

Poverty Perspective Racism Adversity Sexism Ageism Mental Illness Stigma Empathy Diversity Marginalised Groups

Book:The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism

Source: The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism

“I see the fight against sexism, racism, poverty, and even war finding their union not in synonymity but in their ultimate goal — a world more humane.”

Humanity Justice Poverty Racism Injustice Sexism Racial Justice

Book:We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“Ecofeminists call attention to the fact that environmentalists, feminists, and those fighting racism and poverty, are pulling on different straws in the same broom.”

Poverty Environment Racism Sexism Environmentalism Interconnectedness Interconnection Intersectionality Speciesism Ecofeminism

Book:Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“Unlike wealth, poverty of intellect is equally distributed between the sexes and among the races.”

Religion Poverty Racism Equality Inequality Sexism Women Empowerment Patriarchy White Supremacy Chauvinism

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Inequality is one of the pillars of the world economy.”

Poverty Economy Racism Capitalism Equality Employment Inequality Sexism Women Empowerment Economic Empowerment

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, classism, and all other forms of human discrimination, speciesism involves violence inflicted on members of the moral community where that infliction of violence cannot be morally justified. But that means that those of us who oppose speciesism necessarily oppose discrimination against humans. It makes no sense to say that speciesism is wrong because it is like racism (or any other form of discrimination) but that we do not have a position about racism. We do. We should be opposed to it and we should always be clear about that.”

“I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to be clear about that, and advocate for no use. Although rape and child molestation are ubiquitous, we do not have campaigns for “humane” rape or “humane” child molestation. We condemn it all. We should do the same with respect to animal exploitation. Second, animal welfare reform does not provide significant protection for animal interests. Animals are chattel property; they are economic commodities. Given this status and the reality of markets, the level of protection provided by animal welfare will generally be limited to what promotes efficient exploitation. That is, we will protect animal interests to the extent that it provides an economic benefit.”

“The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing significantly greater protection for animal interests; in fact, most of the time, animal welfare reforms do nothing more than make animal exploitation more economically productive by focusing on practices, such as gestation crates, the electrical stunning of chickens, or veal crates, that are economically inefficient in any event. Welfare reforms make animal exploitation more profitable by eliminating practices that are economically vulnerable. For the most part, those changes would happen anyway and in the absence of animal welfare campaigns precisely because they do rectify inefficiencies in the production process. And welfare reforms make the public more comfortable about animal exploitation. The “happy” meat/animal products movement is clear proof of that. We would never advocate for “humane” or "happy” human slavery, rape, genocide, etc. So, if we believe that animals matter morally and that they have an interest not only in not suffering but in continuing to exist, we should not be putting our time and energy into advocating for “humane” or “happy” animal exploitation.”

“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all “on our own journey,” then moral assessment becomes completely impossible or is speciesist. It is impossible because if we are all “on our own journey,” then there is nothing to say to the racist, sexist, anti-semite, homophobe, etc. If we say that those forms of discrimination are morally bad, but, with respect to animals, we are all “on our own journey” and we cannot make moral assessments about, for instance, dairy consumption, then we are simply being speciesist and not applying the same moral analysis to nonhumans that we apply to the human context.”

“If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm to shift. We must be clear that veganism is the unequivocal baseline of anything that deserves to be called an “animal rights” movement. If “animal rights” means anything, it means that we cannot morally justify any animal exploitation; we cannot justify creating animals as human resources, however “humane” that treatment may be. We must stop thinking that people will find veganism “daunting” and that we have to promote something less than veganism. If we explain the moral ideas and the arguments in favor of veganism clearly, people will understand. They may not all go vegan immediately; in fact, most won’t. But we should always be clear about the moral baseline. If someone wants to do less as an incremental matter, let that be her/his decision, and not something that we advise to do. The baseline should always be clear. We should never be promoting “happy” or “humane” exploitation as morally acceptable.”

“There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,” or constitutes a judgment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism and a condemnation that vegetarians (or other consumers of animal products) are “bad” people. Yes to the first part; no to the second. There is no coherent distinction between flesh and other animal products. They are all the same and we cannot justify consuming any of them. To say that you do not eat flesh but that you eat dairy or eggs or whatever, or that you don’t wear fur but you wear leather or wool, is like saying that you eat the meat from spotted cows but not from brown cows; it makers no sense whatsoever. The supposed “line” between meat and everything else is just a fantasy–an arbitrary distinction that is made to enable some exploitation to be segmented off and regarded as “better” or as morally acceptable. This is not a condemnation of vegetarians who are not vegans; it is, however, a plea to those people to recognize their actions do not conform with a moral principle that they claim to accept and that all animal products are the result of imposing suffering and death on sentient beings. It is not a matter of judging individuals; it is, however, a matter of judging practices and institutions. And that is a necessary component of ethical living.”

“An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it may be; (2) rejects welfare campaigns that seek more “humane” exploitation, or single-issue campaigns that seek to portray one form of animal exploitation as morally worse than other forms of animal exploitation (e.g., a campaign that seeks to distinguish fur from wool or leather); and (3) regards veganism, or the complete rejection of the consumption or use of any animal products, as a moral baseline. An abolitionist regards creative, nonviolent vegan education as the primary form of activism, because she understands that the paradigm will not shift until we address demand and educate people to stop thinking of animals as things we eat, wear, or use as our resources.”

“Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.”

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Accepting evil is worse than committing evil.”

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Accepting evil is worse than committing evil. You must – I repeat – you must, as a human being, stand up on the side of humanism, against barbarian inhumanism, for it is your action, that shall determine whether your children shall live in a world of peace and harmony or a world of chaos and discriminations.”

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“I have the deepest respect for those who rise above the bigotry of their families.”

Wisdom Family Racism Respect Prejudice Nationalism Bigotry Sexism Intolerance Fundamentalism

Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

“The Genesis declaration carries the central truth that each human person is a precious individual, whether strong or weak, rich or poor, able-bodied or handicapped, intellectually brilliant or limited, beautiful or plain.”

Humanity Racism Bible Sexism Genesis Human Dignity Intrinsic Value Ableism Human Dignity Quotes

Book:The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom

Source: The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom

“We can be the very first generation which fails to see the logic or pride in defining ourselves by anything else but what is found within ourselves: our values”

Values Leadership Pride Racism Logic Labels Nationalism Sexism Generation Definition

Author:Akilnathan Logeswaran

“Love has no gender - compassion has no religion - character has no race.”

Book:Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded.”

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.”

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“In the unification of two minds, orientation of sexuality is irrelevant.”

Book:Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist ape - a theoretical pest from the stone-age, that somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect.”

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Homosexuals are not made, they are born.”

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological.”

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Discriminations suit animals, not humans. And yet, the unfortunate reality is, it is the humans that discriminate each other on the grounds of imaginary labels, not the animals. This way, animals are more civilized than humans.”

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow.”

Humans Religion Humanity Inspiring Racism Humanism Humanitarian Sexism Homophobia Love And Kindness One Human Race Humanitarian Intervention

Book:Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“I envision a valley, beyond red and blue, beyond flags and barbwires, beyond capitols and churches, where our descendants will sit together around a campfire and tell each other stories of the olden days - "remember when our ancestors used to live in tribes - they called it religion, nation, race and all that - how silly right!" I work towards that future.”

Diversity Racism Prejudice Equality Oneness Sexism Inclusion One Humanity Systemic Racism Tribalism

Book:The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“The rationale seems to be that we keep people as victims by validating them, empathizing with them, and fighting alongside them for equality and the dignity they deserve. I don’t think people are kept down by that. I believe what keeps people down is the constant dismissal of their pain, the degradation, the humiliation, the fear of injustice, and the continuous crushing of their will, their faith, and their hope. This type of oppression kills the self-esteem people need to empower themselves, and it's flat-out terrorism.”

Humanity Women Compassion Diversity Racism Bigotry Sexism Love One Another Survivors Survivors Of Abuse Trauma Survivors Empathy For Others Unity Of All People

Author:Kyrian Lyndon

“Just because a bunch of mostly white men hammered history into one shape, it doesn’t mean they got it right.”

Men History Racism Bigotry Sexism White Supremacy Homophobia

Book:The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

Source: The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

“If you see suspicious behaviour from someone who you can more easily identify with, you are more likely to give them the benefit of the doubt than those enacting the same behaviour but who you can not so easily identify with. This does not make you a bad person, it makes you a conditioned person. The quality of your character is, instead, measured by how you respond to that conditioning, both in the moment and in the rest of your life.”

Character Justice Racism Prejudice Equality Discrimination Sexism Bias Conditioning Normativity

Author:Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“What would be wicked would be to say, 'I will not give this person a job because he belongs to this category of people, and there's some kind of statistical tendency for this category of person to be different from that category...' Treat them as individuals! Look at the qualifications of this individual, and forget about the group, race, whatever you want to call it, to which he belongs.”

Jobs Science Race Class Racism Prejudice Gender Discrimination Sexism Job

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Apes will talk (Naskaristana 2728) Every time a human disrupts convention, apes will talk. Every time a human chooses humanity over nation, apes will talk. Every time a human loves across culture and border, apes will talk. Every time a human marries same gender, apes will talk. Every time a human chooses to abort, apes will talk. Every time a human refuses misogyny and toxic masculinity, apes will talk. Apes will talk, and it hardly matters - opinion of the apes is irrelevant in human affairs.”

Freedom Racism Social Justice Human Rights Nationalism Sexism Right Wing Xenophobia Far Right People Will Talk

Book:Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Their goals are the same. To ensure individual liberty and equality of opportunity and forever to thwart the tyrannous tendencies of government, which inevitably arise from the arrogance and the isolation of men, who are securely in power.”

Government America Opportunity Freedom Liberty Power Racism Equality Sexism

Book:Unbought and Unbossed

Source: Unbought and Unbossed

“There must be a new coalition of all Americans - black, white, red, yellow and brown, rich and poor - who are no longer willing to allow their rights as human beings to be infringed upon by anyone else for any reason. We must join together to insist that this nation deliver on the promise it made nearly 200 years ago. That every man be allowed to be a man. I feel an incredible urgency that we must do it now. If time has not run out, it is surely, ominously short.”

Government America Freedom Power Racism Sexism Coalition

Book:Unbought and Unbossed

Source: Unbought and Unbossed

“Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.”

“Judicial systems that enforce inequality as law are tools of subjugation.”

Law Racism Inequality Bigotry Sexism Exploitation Judiciary Elitism Subjugation Opression

Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

“I am a Black woman. True, I have been told time and time again that my best chance of success is to emulate the preferred traits of white maleness as much as possible. Still, mine is not the image of the great leaders in our history books, nor that of the heroes in our stories. For someone like me to expect any greatness without having exceptional talent and luck was, at best, foolish and, at worst, dangerous. This is not my birthright.”

Feminism Racism Sexism White Feminism

Book:Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Source: Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”

“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a black jewel. Ed saw the tiny specks of light around the edges of the bay where he knew ships must be docked, and at different points within the bay where vessels would be anchored. The lights were pale and sickly yellow when compared with the bright blue-white sparkle of the stars overhead, but the stars glinted hard as diamonds, cold as ice. Pg. 26.”

Source: Once upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties

“It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.”

“In 1996 Dorothy Mackey wrote an Op-ed piece, “Violence from comrades a fact of life for military women.” ABC News 20/ 20 did a segment on rape in the military. By November four women came forward at Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Maryland, about a pattern of rape by drill sergeants. In 1997 the military finds three black drill sergeants to scapegoat. They were sent to prison and this left the commanding generals and colonels untouched to retire quietly. The Army appointed a panel to investigate sexual harassment. One of the panelists was the sergeant Major of the Army, Eugene McKinney. On hearing his nomination, former associates and one officer came forward with charges of sexual coercion and misconduct. In 1998 he was acquitted of all charges after women spoke (of how they were being stigmatized, their careers stopped, and their characters questioned. A Congressional panel studied military investigative practices. In 1998, the Court of Appeals ruled against Dorothy Mackay. She had been outspoken on media and highly visible. There is an old Arabic saying “When the hen crows cut off her head.”“This court finds that Col. Milam and Lt. Col. Elmore were acting in the scope of their duties” in 1991-1992 when Capt. Mackey alleged they harassed, intimidated and assaulted her. A legislative remedy was asked for and she appealed to the Supreme Court. Of course the Supreme Court refused to hear the case in 1999, as it always has under the feres doctrine. Her case was cited to block the suit of one of the Aberdeen survivors as well!”

Source: Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders

“FORGET FERES DOCTRINE And the military has immunity! Yes! The feres doctrine! It states “the Government is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries to servicemen where injuries arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service” (U.S. Supreme Court 1950). Federal law and our Supreme Court shield acts of rape and sexual brutality in the military as proven by its subsequent ruling on a 2001 case that denied a plaintiffs right to file a civil suit against her accusers. Yet when women report the crime, it is handled internally Commanders are given the discretion to resolve complaints. The report may not go beyond his office. Many times he's part of the problem or a sympathizer with the offender. This certainly was my case! Our Supreme Court ruled as recently as 2001 that rape is an injury incident to the course of activity in the service! THE HEINOUS CRIME OF RAPE IS ACCEPTABLE AND CONDONED BY OUR SUPREME COURT! WOMEN ARE FAIR GAME FOR RAPE AND HARRASSMENT, ACCORDING TO OUR SUPREME COURT! CONGRESS IS NO BETTER! NO LAWS ARE PASSED TO PROTECT US IN THE MILITARY AGAINST THE STATUTE OF LIMITATION FOR THE FELONY OF RAPE!”

Source: Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders

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