The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies... Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
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William Wilberforce
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
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Gary L. Francione
Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.
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Gary L. Francione
If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.
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Gary L. Francione
Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.
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Gary L. Francione
More Quotes By Solomon Northup
At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him...
It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that...
The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the bosoms of those who, among their equals, are regarded as humane and generous.
The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies... Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?
There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet.. . there's a day coming that will burn as an oven. It may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a...
