Daniel

“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity. I made myself acquainted with Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes, such as boiling pototoes or rice, making hasty-pudding, and a few others, and then proposed to my brother that if he would give me, weekly, half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me. This was an additional fund for buying books.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography and Other Writings

“Any such common denominator that is possessed by all humans will not be possessed only by humans.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed

“We are citizens of the most powerful country on earth—we are also citizens of a country that stands upon the wrong side of every liberation struggle on earth. Feel what that means.”
― Audre Lorde, I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings

“If I know that a man is cruel to his Beast, I ask no more questions about him. He may be a noble man, or a rich man, or a polite man, or a sensible man, or a learned man, or an orthodox man, or a church man, or a puritan, or any thing else, it matters not; this I know, on the sacred word of a wise King, that, being cruel to his beast, he is a WICKED man.”
― Humphrey Primatt, The Duty of Mercy: A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals