Many people, especially ignorant people,
want to punish you for speaking the truth,
for being correct, for being you.
Never apologize for being correct,
or for being years ahead of your time.
If you're right and you know it,
speak your mind.
Even if you are a minority of one,
the truth is still the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
The further a society drifts from the truth,
the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell
The truth is that people are brainwashed into
thinking that it's normal to consume animals.
They are so uncomfortable with confronting
what happens to those animals because
they are part and parcel of that cruelty.
Juliet Gellatley
Our grandchildren will ask us one day:
Where were you during the Holocaust
of the animals? What did you do against
those horrifying crimes? We won't be
able to offer the same excuse for
the second time, that we didn't know.
Helmut Kaplan
Animal rights is a part of my everyday life.
When you live by example, you create a
certain level of awareness. People I have
never discussed veganism with are adopting
new habits because they see it.
Joaquin Phoenix
You meet saints everywhere.
They are people behaving decently
in an indecent society.
Kurt Vonnegut
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
Socrates
The thing that's annoying about there suddenly
being a lot of vegans is the nagging suspicion
that they might be right.
David Mitchell
Kindness and beneficence should be extended
to the creatures of every species, and these
will flow from the breast of a true man,
as streams that issue from the living fountain.
Plutarch
You should not honor men more than truth.
Plato
We are not living in a private world of our own.
Everything we say and do and think
has its effect on everything around us.
John Galsworthy
You either approve of violence or you don't,
and nothing on Earth is more violent
or extreme than the meat industry.
Morrissey
First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
The treatment of animals by the food industry
is so excessively heartless, and such an affront
to natural justice, that we who by our silence
tacitly consent to these outrages deserve to
be shocked out of our sleep. In the long run,
Mr. Yourofsky may well be doing us
a moral service by confronting us, by
the spectacle of the crimes we participate in.
John Maxwell Coetzee
If it's not good enough for your eyes,
why is it good enough for your stomach?
Gary Yourofsky
The truth will set you free.
But first, it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
