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
Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.
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Kristin Cashore
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Henry Kissinger
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...
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Gary L. Francione
More Quotes By Zen Cho
It is a mother's duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter.
The woman leant forward, her eyes flashing, a smile both triumphant and tender curving her mouth." You are *my* daughter, " she said. "Can there be any doubt that you will be brilliant -- audacious -- and free?" The vision disappeared. She had been so...
What are acquaintance for, if not to supply the pleasures of gossip?
... it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you.
Whether I'm a good wife doesn't have anything to do with what he was like.
