“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“Between being ‘right’ and being kind, I know which way I vote.”
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 24, p. 400
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