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quotes[0]='“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.”
— Alice Walker (Author of The Color Purple)
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quotes[1]='“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”
— Leonardo Da Vinci
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quotes[2]='“I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.”
— Charles Mayo (founder of the Mayo Clinic)
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quotes[3]='“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.”
— Pythagoras
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quotes[4]='“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
— Albert Einstein
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quotes[5]='“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the \'Universe\', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.”
— Albert Einstein
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quotes[6]='“Under the leadership of Dr. King, I became totally committed to nonviolence, and I was convinced that nonviolence meant opposition to killing in any form. I felt the commandment Thou Shalt Not Kill applied to human beings not only in their dealings with each other (war, lynching, assassination, murder and the like) but in their practice of killing animals for food and sport. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and brutal taking of life.”
— Dick Gregory, comedian & activist, from his memoir, Callus on my Soul
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quotes[7]='“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
— Albert Schweitzer
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quotes[8]='“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
— Mahatma Ghandhi
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quotes[9]='“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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quotes[10]='“The term “free-range” “doesn’t really tell you anything about the [animal’s]…quality of life, nor does it even assure that the animal actually goes outdoors.”
— Peter Perl, The Washington Post Magazine
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quotes[11]='“We find amongst animals, as amongst men, power of feeling pleasure, power of feeling pain: we see them moved by love and by hate; we see them feeling terror and attraction; we recognize in them power of sensation closely akin to our own ... We know that when they feel terror, that terror means suffering. We know that when a wound is inflicted, that wound means pain to them.”
— Annie Besant
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quotes[12]='“Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother.”
— Jane Goodall
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quotes[13]='“If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to hurt or harm any of His beings, we are loving God.”
— Meher Baba
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quotes[14]='“I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. ... I could not bear it.”
— Vaslav Nijinsky
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quotes[15]='“Since visiting the abattoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
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quotes[16]='“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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quotes[17]='“If you have men who will exclude any of God\'s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”
— St. Francis of Assisi
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quotes[18]='“The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.”
— Hippocrates
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quotes[19]='“In the US, 157 million metric tons of cereal, legumes and vegetable protein suitable for human use is fed to livestock to produce 28 million metric tons of animal protein for annual human consumption.”
— Jeremy Rifkin, Foundation on Economic Trends
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