{"quotes":[{"text":"Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","flowers","pretty-girl","pretty-girls","race-relations","racism","slavery"],"id":279,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolitionist","animal-products","dairy","exploitation","francione","milk","mother","nonviolence","slavery","veganism"],"id":7965,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","education","exploitation","francione","inspirational","justice","life","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace-making","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","rights","sentience","slavery","veganism","wisdom"],"id":16314,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","exploitation","inspirational","justice","movement","nonviolence","peace","peace-movement","rights","veganism"],"id":34521,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should be making if we really believe that animal exploitation is wrong, but because these approaches cannot work as a practical matter. Animals are property and it costs money to protect their interests; therefore, the level of protection accorded to animal interests will always be low and animals will, under the best of circumstances, still be treated in ways that would constitute torture if applied to humans.By endorsing welfare reforms that supposedly make exploitation more “compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice that says that all sentient beings are equal for purposes of not being used exclusively as human resources. And, on a practical level, we do nothing more than make people feel better about animal exploitation.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","education","exploitation","francione","inspirational","justice","life","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace-making","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","rights","sentience","slavery","veganism","wisdom"],"id":142236,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","education","exploitation","francione","inspirational","justice","life","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace-making","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","rights","sentience","slavery","veganism","vulnerable","wisdom"],"id":165557,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"That was when I realized we weren’t born to beslaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master of another. We were all meant to be free, and somewhere there were good people helping to heal this broken world.","author":"Jay Grewal","tags":["abolitionist","american-history","black-history","civil-war","equality","faith","motivational","slavery"],"id":165558,"author_id":"Jay+Grewal"},{"text":"When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is really hideous, and 'compassionate' or 'certified humane' or whatever, which *may* be *slightly* less hideous. But it's all torture. It's all wrong. These 'happy' gimmicks are just designed to make the public feel better about exploiting animals. Don't buy the propaganda of 'happy' exploitation. Go vegan and promote veganism.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ethical-veganism","francione","happy-meat","humane","humane-labels","moral-imperative","rights","slaughter","slavery","veganism","welfare"],"id":168043,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","education","exploitation","francione","inspirational","justice","life","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace-making","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","rights","sentience","slavery","veganism","wisdom"],"id":184851,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.","author":"William Lloyd Garrison","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","dissent","free-speech","protest","slavery"],"id":204511,"author_id":"William+Lloyd+Garrison"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}