Abolition Quotes

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We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguish

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong and possibly more morally wrong to consume dairy

Gary L. Francione

Education Animals Classism Exploitation Extinction Abolition Climate Change Ahimsa Ableist Abolitionist Francione Calves Dairy

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encoura

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, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

Gary L. Francione

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You may choose to look the other way but you can never say a

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

William Wilberforce

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Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it

Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.)

Christopher Hitchens

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