“Of course we cried out in horror when we found out what they had been up to. We cried: What a terrible crime, to treat human beings like cattle! If we had only known beforehand! But our cry should more accurately have been: What a terrible crime, to treat human beings like units in an industrial process! And that cry should have had a postscript: What a terrible crime, come to think of it - a crime against nature - to treat any living being like a unit in an industrial process!”

- J.M. Coetzee 

“When we are confronted with nay-sayers who argue that veganism is scary and unpopular, remember that the anti-slavery movement was very unpopular when William Wilberforce took on the establishment, of which he was very much a part. If we don’t draw that line in the sand, as did Wilberforce, who will?”

- Eric Prescott

“Yes we can.”

- Barack Obama (via YouTube)

“American culture has basically accepted the concept of human rights. [...]

“[...]this concept has included implicit exclusions. [...]

“The exclusion has always been justified by putative differences in kind. The question in such border disputes is always when is a difference a distinction.”

- Joel

“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’
Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’
Vanity 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 one that
it is right.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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When asked why he’d come to Birmingham, [Dr. Martin Luther] King wrote “I am here because injustice is here.” When asked why we support the Matthew Shepard Act black Christians can respond the same.

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