By saying that human issues are more important than non-human issues, that violence to humans is more relevant than violence to animals, one forgets that the animal liberation movement implies a message of peace for every being on earth and the opposition against the mindset of oppression. To make a distinction between one violence and another is exactly the root of all violence: Some wouldn't do any harm to those who share with them a flag, a religion, a language, etc. But would easily condemn to suffering and death those who are different. This tragic use of diversity as an excuse to inflict pain on others for a matter of profit and convenience is the cause of suffering for both human and non-human animals.

But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. ...Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. ...Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice.

You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too early. We cannot be free until they are free.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Isn't it odd that some groups view being legally equal to other groups as 'oppression'?

When you have a hammer in your hand, everything around you starts looking like a nail.

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

Assist your Muslim brother, whether he be an oppressor or oppressed. 'Bu how shall we doit when he is an oppressor?' enquired a companion. Muhammad replied, 'Assisting an oppressor by forbidding and witholding him from oppression.