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  • #1
    “If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.”
    Ellen DeGeneres, My Point... And I Do Have One

  • #2
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #3
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #4
    Jeremy Bentham
    “The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
    Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics), The Principles of Morals and Legislation

  • #5
    Rai Aren
    “I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends - the fear, the terror, the pain - and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being.”
    Rai Aren

  • #6
    César Chávez
    “I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.”
    Cesar Chavez

  • #7
    Albert Schweitzer
    “We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #8
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #9
    César Chávez
    “We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.”
    Cesar Chavez

  • #10
    “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
    Paul McCartney

  • #11
    Peter Singer
    “To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.”
    Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

  • #12
    Alice Walker
    “Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored”
    Alice Walker

  • #13
    Milan Kundera
    “Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”
    Milan Kundera

  • #14
    Lawrence  Anthony
    “The only good cage is an empty cage.”
    Lawrence Anthony, The Elephant Whisperer

  • #15
    Alice Walker
    “The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
    Alice Walker

  • #16
    Gautama Buddha
    “May all that have life be delivered from suffering”
    Buddha

  • #17
    “The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.”
    Ellen DeGeneres

  • #18
    Chief Seattle
    “My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.”
    Chief Seattle, Chief Seattle's Speech (1854)



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