Right to Rescue

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.

Jo Frederiks

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.

If saving a life can make you a criminal,

something is deeply broken.

Joaquin Phoenix

An unjust law is itself a species of violence.

Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi

To know even one life has breathed easier

because you have lived. This is

to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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 here, not because we are law-breakers;

we are here in our efforts to become

lawmakers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

Ronald Reagan

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

We are all victims of the violence that animals

suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no fundamental difference between man

and animals in their ability to feel pleasure

and pain, happiness and misery.

Charles Darwin

The arc of the moral universe is long,

but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The day may come when the rest of the animal

creation may acquire those rights which never

could have been withholden from them

but by the hand of tyranny.

Jeremy Bentham

💗Chicken 🐥 Love 🐔🐓

Respect life and life will respect you.

Love life and love will shower blessings on you.

Rajneesh

Animals are my friends...

and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

Jo Frederiks

I did not become a vegan for my health,

I did it for the health of the chickens.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The story of the chicken is the saddest story

ever told, and we are its authors.

T.B.A

The beauty you see in me

is a reflection of you.

Rumi

Our prime purpose in this life is to help

others. And if you can't help them,

at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Saint Augustine

The soul is the same in all living creatures,

although the body of each is different.

Hippocrates

I believe that the reason of life

is for each of us simply to grow in love.

Leo Tolstoy

Think occasionally of the suffering of which

you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

Now I can look at you in peace;

I don't eat you anymore.

Franz Kafka

Just how destructive does a culinary preference

have to be before we decide to eat something else?

If contributing to the suffering of billions of

animals that live miserable lives and, quite often,

die in horrific ways isn't motivating,

what would be?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Being healthy doesn't need to be expensive,

and with plant-based alternatives you can have

the same taste and texture as real chicken,

without the harmful effects to our body,

the environment and chickens.

Cameron Newton

Why are you so afraid of change? Nothing

in this world can be without change. Only

one rule is constant: do not do anything

inhumane to others.

Marcus Aurelius

Every time you spend money, you're casting

a vote for the kind of world you want.

Anna Lappé

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress

can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greater your capacity for love,

the more beauty you find in the world.

Jane Smiley

In every living being there is the desire for love.

D.H. Lawrence

What we call love is in its essence

reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

I greet you from the other side of sorrow

and despair, with a love so vast and

shattered it will reach you everywhere.

Leonard Cohen

Vegans in Media

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

🌱 The Vegan Community 🌻

People working together in a strong community

with a shared goal and a common purpose

can make the impossible possible.

Tom Vilsack

If you think we can't change the world,

it just means you're not one of those who will.

Jacque Fresco

The time will come when men such as I

will look upon the murder of animals

as they now look upon the murder of men.

Leonardo da Vinci

Think about what your skills are, and what you

enjoy doing, or what you're good at and

employ those specific skills to make

the world a better place.

Jo-Anne McArthur

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,

in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to

the whole community and as long as I live,

it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw

The key is to keep company only with people who

uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Epictetus

All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

A man can live and be healthy without killing

animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat,

he participates in taking life merely

for the sake of his appetite.

And to act so is immoral.

Leo Tolstoy

You meet saints everywhere.

They are people behaving decently

in an indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

The thing that's annoying about there suddenly

being a lot of vegans is the nagging suspicion

that they might be right.

David Mitchell

You can judge a man's true character by

the way he treats his fellow animals.

Paul McCartney

I'm so proud to be a vegan.

It's the best decision I have ever made.

For my health and for the world and

for the sake of decency and compassion.

Paul Wesley

Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do

what I believe is right. That's powerful.

Alicia Silverstone

Truth has to be repeated constantly,

because Error also is being preached all the time,

and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In

the Press, Encyclopaedias, in Schools and

Universities, everywhere Error holds sway,

feeling happy and comfortable in

the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jo Frederiks

We are all victims of the violence that animals

suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

George Bernard Shaw

My awareness of belonging to the invisible

community of those who strive for truth,

beauty and justice has prevented me

from feelings of isolation.

Albert Einstein

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

People who say things like "I can't worry

about animals when there are humans

who need help" tend to do f*ck all

to help humans neither...

Kindness is kindness. Simple as that.

Ricky Gervais

My life is my message.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are only as strong as we are united,

as weak as we are divided.

J.K. Rowling

The day the power of love overrules the love

of power, the world will know peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jo Frederiks

What If... 👽

People say they love animals

and yet harm them nontheless;

I'm glad those people don't love me.

Marc Bekoff

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs

of his tribe are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

Many people have ideas on how others

should change; few people have ideas

on how they should change.

Leo Tolstoy

Cows scream louder than carrots.

Alan Watts

If you want to know where you would have

stood on slavery before the Civil War,

don't look at where you stand on slavery today.

Look at where you stand on animal rights.

Paul Watson

If you think being a quaker is easy,

you're not doing it right.

Benjamin Lay

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted

to a profoundly sick society.

Krishnamurti

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that

this planet is used by other planets

as a lunatic asylum.

George Bernard Shaw

If a group of beings from another planet were to

land on Earth - beings who considered themselves

as superior to you as you feel yourself to be

to other animals - would you concede them

the rights over you that you assume

over other animals?

George Bernard Shaw

Jo Frederiks

The basis of all animal rights should be

the Golden Rule: we should treat them

as we would wish them to treat us, were

any other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens