I say if you believe as a knowledgeable, moral and ethical person that there is injustice ...

I say if you believe as a knowledgeable, moral and ethical person that there is injustice in the law then you need to speak up. ~ Professor Steve Garlick

I am not saying that you should not engage in peaceful demonstrations at a circus ...

I am not saying that you should not engage in peaceful demonstrations at a circus or whatever; I am just saying that you ought to be distributing literature and educating people about why ALL animal use is unjustifiable. Using an event like a circus as a focal point for vegan education is not necessarily a bad idea. As a general matter, however, I see single-issue campaigns as problematic, whether they are regulatory (making practice X more "humane") or whether they purport to be "bans" or prohibitions. They convey the impression that some forms of exploitation are worse than others and confuses people ~ Gary Francione

If the animal rights movement was stripped of its male rights language ...

If the animal rights movement was stripped of its male rights language, its mainly male leaders and the sexist approach of some of the promotional material, what would we have? We would have to acknowledge that it is largely a movement of women who care about animals. ~ Carol Adams

If we look at planet Earth today, there is no doubt that ...

If we look at planet Earth today, there is no doubt that the Earth will survive, but, in the direction we're going right now, there is a real question of whether the human species will survive ~ Howard Lyman

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