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

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

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

I believe that all forms of prejudice and oppression are connected and ...

I believe that all forms of prejudice and oppression are connected and really flow from the same root (that of making someone else an "other"). I've definitely been conditioned with the privileges I hold (species, class,/caste gender, and race, to name a few), and I've often said and done things that reinforce many types of "othering" ~ Minku Sharma