Our grandchildren will ask us one day, 'Where were you during the holocaust of the animals? What did you do against these horrific crimes?' This time around we won't be able to say, 'We didn't know it was going on'Helmut Kaplan, PhD

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a point when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor polite, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells him or her that it is right Martin Luther King, Jr.

Compassion and cruelty are concepts related to kindness. Kindness is essentially an act of charity from a position of advantage. Animal Rights and Veganism are not about being kind to someone who needs our charity. Animal Rights is about justice, a “Social Justice Movement,” not a “Social Kindness Movement.” Veganism is, by definition, the attempt to refrain from intentionally engaging in any act that would inflict unnecessary harm on other animals. But above and beyond anything else, it's a rejection of speciesism… Being Vegan is not about granting someone pre-legal, moral rights that they don't already have, just as being against racism or sexism is not about granting non-male or non-white people moral rights they didn't already have; they already had those rights. We've simply been violating them all this time The Legacy Of Pythagoras, If you think animals have moral value, your only rational and just response is to live Vegan