A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
quote by Michael Pollan
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Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.
quote by Daryl Hannah
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0028 Root for the Vegetable Rights Movement!
It’s the inevitable march,
the golden-hearted chain,
of Ultimate Compassion:
yesterday, a group of anglers,
danglers in the river for hours on end
of peaceful anticipation
punctuated by a rare bite
from a fish, which then the most sporting
unhook and throw back to freedom rather than
yet another fish supper
were set upon by a group of 35
‘protesters’… you do the math,
how many man-hours to save
one fish? With the courage
of their convictions, the trawler fleet
should be their next sea-green
seasick target… and on a smaller scale,
obviously the shore of the Sea of Galilee
is a high-profile target (assuming that
it’s not in the fighting zone at the time…)
And there’s more to come –
the Vegetable Rights movement
which so far has kept underground (…)
has a huge task ahead, as it
gains ground so to speak:
those poor baby peas, mown down at dewy-fingered dawn
like army deserters in the First World War,
are the obvious target for our grief;
then the vast plains of America
slaughtering wheat for our daily bread
(and here again, the Sea of Galilee comes to mind –
do miracles have rights too?) these great plains
must come under fundamental survey…
and as the Compassion Movement gathers pace,
there’s all those mosquitoes in Africa and elsewhere
so cruelly deprived of their right
to sting like cornered terrorists,
and don’t viruses have their rights too?
Then comes a difficult moral decision –
what of animals that kill other animals?
Whose side are we on there? Which has
the greater rights to life and freedom? Brothers and sisters,
bleeding hearts, there’s much work to be done…
let's hope that war doesn't interfere with
our compassionate fight for rights..
poem by Michael Shepherd
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We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
quote by Clara Zetkin
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
quote by Emile M. Cioran
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There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
quote by Henry David Thoreau
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This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. … We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.
quote by John F. Kennedy
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The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
quote by Elizabeth Blackwell
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For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
quote by Michael Pollan
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Animals
I know what I need I need you
I cant see nothin else all I can see is you
I dont care what they say about my state of mind
I know whats good for me and you are just my kind
We are animals we are animals we are animals we are animals
I know what I want I want you
Shed your cloths forget your codes
You know this is nothing new
I smell your scent I taste your sweat
I feel this passion too
Lets trust our senses not our minds
Lets break all the rules
We are animals we are animals
We are animals we are animals
We are animals
We are animals
Come with me run with me leave this world behind
Come to me come with me I know that we will find
We are animals we are animals
We are animals we are animals
We are animals
We are animals
(m.charlton)
Copyright 1989 elgin music
song performed by by Nazareth
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Dont You Think It's Time?
children have rights,
women have rights.
lovers have rights.
people of all religions,
and even atheists have rights.
people of all colors,
speaking every language have rights.
trees and rivers have rights.
cats and dogs have rights.
cattle have rights,
homeless people have rights.
prisoners have rights.
democrats and republicans have rights,
even socialists have rights.
the jobless have rights,
old people have rights...
and the hungry have
the right to be fed!
damnit! dont you think it's time?
poem by Eric Cockrell
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Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.
quote by Frederick Douglass
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At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
quote by Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
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In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
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Sonnet: plight of human lives!
Though people care for Dogs and Cats as pets;
And spend time and big money for their upkeep;
Who cares about the poor man in debts!
There is no soul at times to even peep.
While activists fight for the rights of beasts;
And world spends billions to protect Tigers!
Build hospitals for animals diseased;
Who cares about the poor beggar in rigors.
Thus, human life is threatened and uncared;
The world revels in beauty-pageant shows!
Some grow their nails long, keeping them unpared;
The ship of life is captainless, off course!
One man looks down upon the other, oh!
Injustice is something most undergo.
poem by John Celes
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The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
quote by Aung San Suu Kyi
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Eve
Simply she stands at the cathedral’s
great ascent, close to the rose window,
with the apple in the apple-pose,
guiltless-guilty once and for all
of the growing she gave birth to
since form the circle of eternities
loving she went forth, top struggle through
her way throughout the earth like a young year.
Ah, gladly yet a little in that land
Would she have lingered, heeding the harmony
And understanding of the animals.
But since she found the man determined,
She went with him, aspiring after death,
And she had as yet hardly known God.
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
quote by Angela Davis
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I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.
quote by David Talbot
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