I do not support "humane" animal products, and speak out as best I can against them ...

I do not support “humane” animal products, and speak out as best I can against them, both in writing, and in the lectures I give – there are invariably people who have a friend who has chickens as pets and want to know if it’s OK to eat their eggs,  for example. Even in these situations, I tell them I feel that there is institutionalized violence – it is a form of himsa (violence) to believe that one “owns” another living being.  If the friend “owns” the hen, she (the hen) is being confined against her will, and is not able to live her life as she did for millennia in the jungles of southeast Asia, and is in an artificial, manipulated, inherently abusive environment. Even the most apparently benign situation, if there’s ownership and money involved, are exploitive, in my opinion, and that’s the perspective I express. ~ Dr. Will Tuttle

I just remind other people that I'm no different than they are ...

I just remind [other people] that I'm no different than they are, and that they already carry the capacity for taking equality seriously within them. For example, they most likely would hate to see cats and dogs exploited. All they have to do is extend that same concern to all other sentient beings ~ Minku Sharma

A commitment to the well-being of all sentience has far-reaching implications for ..

A commitment to the well-being of all sentience has far-reaching implications for humans and non-humans alike - ranging from the abolition of factory-farming and closure of the death factories to compassionate – and systematic - intervention in the  living world. A commitment to the well-being of all sentience also – I’d argue - entails adopting a cruelty-free vegan lifestyle. ~ Dave Pearce

Asking someone to stop eating animals and animal products isn't simply asking for ...

Asking someone to stop eating animals and animal products isn’t simply asking for a change of behavior; if it were truly that simple we’d live in a very different world. It’s asking for a shift of consciousness. ~ Dr. Melanie Joy

Creating a better world for humans also creates the conditions where ...

Creating a better world for humans also creates the conditions where animal liberation can prosper. We fit into that struggle wherever we have the courage to join it, but it is also far past time that we see the politics of these other struggles brought into our own. I see a lot of my comrades having backwards attitudes and behaviors. We will become better animal liberationists by becoming better people in general.  Learn about the struggles of others, lose your own prejudices, and fight injustice wherever you see it. ~ Josh Harper

When I see some of the bitterness and judging and finger pointing among ...

When I see some of the bitterness and judging and finger pointing among animal activists, I think, “Man, the movement needs UNITY just as much as the world does” ~ Shaun Monson

I would like to say now that the rest of my life, I am absolutely committed to ...

I would like to say now that the rest of my life, I am absolutely committed to the fact that no animal has to die for me to live. It is the most heartwarming thing that has ever happened to me ~ Howard Lyman.

Personally I find the idea of in vitro meat revolting - even though ...

Personally I find the idea of in vitro meat revolting - even though its potential mass-production is cruelty-free. But I worry that moral argument and antispeciesist advocacy alone aren’t going to outlaw factory farming and the death factories. For you can’t argue effectively against moral apathy – and let’s face it, most people are morally apathetic most of the time. Fortunately, most people aren’t actively malevolent either. So when in vitro meat products are available at the price and tastiness of traditional products, I predict the majority of people will choose the cruelty-free option – and feel good about themselves for doing so. ~ David Pearce

I try to never believe that anyone is a "lost cause." Ten years ago ...

I try to never believe that anyone is a "lost cause." Ten years ago, I wasn't vegan. I said to my vegan friends that I am a lost cause. So, if I can go from that to where I am now, no one's a lost cause ~ Minku Sharma

Let it suffice to say that I regard any activity that harms other sentient beings ...

Let it suffice to say that I regard any activity that harms other sentient beings or that creates a risk of harm to other sentient beings as violence. ~ Gary Francione

I don't think the animals would appreciate one animal protector spending ...

I don't think the animals would appreciate one animal protector spending their time criticizing another animal protector ~ while animals are being mutilated each minute.  My bet is that the animals would prefer that animal protectors spend their time convincing non-activists, to become activists! ~ Alex Pacheco

Curiosity and confusion are rampant, as is fear of change, clinging to ...

Curiosity and confusion are rampant, as is fear of change, clinging to past habits, and a reactive pushing back against what I believe is an ongoing awakening of human consciousness. This is to be expected, and is natural, but the awakening is happening I feel, and it will bring us ever onward, at an accelerating pace, toward vegan living (or our extinction or utter enslavement if we continue the trajectory of conventional Western eating/living/thinking). ~ Dr. Will Tuttle

Expanding our politics to embrace the whole of the worlds oppressed would ...

[E]xpanding our politics to embrace the whole of the worlds oppressed would serve the animals well, and knowledge of the history and current practice of other movements will greatly strengthen our own. ~ Josh Harper

Maybe in the future political campaigning may be productive, but ...

Maybe in the future political campaigning may be productive but that time is way off as yet – politicians are followers, not leaders, animal abuse will have to be much weaker, and politicians much less connected with animal exploitation before we can influence parliament. ~ Dr. Roger Yates

Treat other activists well, even when you don't agree...

Treat other activists well, even when you don't agree, and try to encourage people with different tactical ideas to work towards the same goal. It's hard, but a true diversity of tactics and participants will get you far. ~ Josh Harper

If a practice causes animals to suffer it is morally illegitimate ...

If a practice causes animals to suffer it is morally illegitimate, whatever the benefit to humans. ~ Professor Rob Garner

My years of practicing law, and my years of studying how our legal system operates ...

My years of practicing law, and my years of studying how our legal system operates, have persuaded me that the system is quite stable, so I don't expend my energy trying to change it. Instead I struggle to make the case for the fundamental legal rights of nonhuman animals by using it. ~ Professor Steven Wise

There's something about the summary execution of newborn calves - the snuffing out ...

There’s something about the summary execution of newborn calves - the snuffing out of a life before it’s even begun - that deeply offends me. The dairy industry has not only managed to conceal this mass infanticide, it has conned the public with one of (if not the) most successful and cynical marketing campaigns in history. ~ Louise Wallis

Conceptual abilities are utterly irrelevant...

Conceptual abilities are utterly irrelevant; our kinship lies in our common striving for life and well-being. ~ Dan Cudahy.

Abolition means that all sentient beings deserve to belong to themselves and ...

Abolition means that all sentient beings deserve to belong to themselves and be free from exploitation by others. To be an abolitionist is to behave according to that, and at the very least, it means being a vegan. ~ Minku Sharma

After finding so many dead animals at the farms, we thought we could ...

After finding so many dead animals at the farms, we thought we could help people to empathize and stop consuming animals by showing those forgotten victims whose bodies ended up in the garbage containers ~ Jose Valle

When you start cutting people off, you start limiting your experiences ...

When you start cutting people off, you start limiting your experiences... it’s when you start making connections with people, when you start changing their minds. ~ Dino Sarma

Human suffering is a tragedy, and the suffering and dying of children is a despair. It is ...

Human suffering is a tragedy, and the suffering and dying of children is a despair. It is the failure of our time that in a world with unprecedented material wealth, the most innocent of humans are neglected and lost. We must do better. ~ Tim Gier