Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia,...
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Gary L. Francione
Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she...
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Gary L. Francione
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
You're under arrest for multiple counts of murder. You have the right to not much at all, really. Do you have anything to say in your defense?
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Derek Landy
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Ayn Rand
More Quotes By Robert Sheckley
He created waterfalls for her out of the morning dew, and from the colored pebbles of a meadow stream he made a necklace more beautiful than emeralds, sadder than pearls. She caught him in her net of silken hair, she carried him down, down, into...
â€Å‘Shall we go down and have a closer look?’ Hum asked.“â€Å‘ All right. I think we have time – wait! What day is this?’“ Hum calculated silently, then said, ‘The fifth day of Luggat.’“â€Å‘Damn, ’ Cordovir said. ‘I have to go home and kill my...
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.
It's the deep, fundamental bedrock of hypocrisy upon which religion is founded. Consider: no creature can be said to worship if it does not possess free will. Free will, however, is FREE. And just by virtue of being free, is intractable and incalculable, a truly...
