Never, never be afraid to do what's right,
especially if the well-being of a person
or animal is at stake. Society's punishments
are small compared to the wounds we inflict
on our soul when we look the other way.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur
in laboratories and are called medical research.
George Bernard Shaw
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All
the scientific discoveries stained with innocent
blood I count as of no consequence.
Mahatma Gandhi
What I think about vivisection is that if people
admit that they have the right to take the life
of living beings for the benefit of many,
there will be no limit to their cruelty.
Leo Tolstoy
Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.
River Phoenix
Vivisection is a social evil because if it
advances human knowledge, it does so
at the expense of human character.
George Bernard Shaw
Whether we exploit animals to eat, wear, to
entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal
rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.
Tom Regan
The greatest danger to a society is not rebellion,
but the gradual acceptance of injustice.
Gustave Le Bone
One has a moral responsibility
to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence.
Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi
The day may come when the rest of the animal
creation acquire those rights which never
could have been withholden from them
but by the hand of tyranny.
Jeremy Bentham
The problem is that humans have
victimized animals to such a degree
that they are not even considered victims.
They are not considered at all.
Gary Yourofsky
The assumption that animals are without
rights and the illusion that our treatment
of them has no moral significance is a
positively outrageous example of human
crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion
is the only guarantee of morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence
does not entitle one human to use another
for his or her own ends, how can it entitle
humans to exploit non-humans?
Peter Singer
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt
the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
I have seen firsthand how injustice
gets overlooked when the victims are
powerless or vulnerable, when they have
no one to speak up for them and no means of
representing themselves to a higher authority.
Animals are in precisely that position.
Unless we speak out on their behalf,
abuse and cruelty goes unchallenged.
Desmond Tutu
A basic fact about nonviolent resistence is
that it is based on the conviction that
the universe is on the side of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There can be no doubt as to which side is right
and which side is wrong, for compassionate
defense of life is a force of good and sadistic
mass destruction of life is a force for evil.
Paul Watson
The arc of the moral universe is long,
but it bends towards justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived. This is
to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If saving a life can make you a criminal,
something is deeply broken.
Joaquin Phoenix
Those who won't hesitate to vivisect,
won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
George Bernard Shaw
Vivisection is a crime.
Victor Hugo
We are all victims of the violence that animals
suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
George Bernard Shaw
Why should the law refuse its protection to any
sensitive being? The time will come when
humanity will extend its mantle
over everyone who breathes.
Jeremy Bentham
There is no fundamental difference between man
and animals in their ability to feel pleasure
and pain, happiness and misery.
Charles Darwin
