“Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.”

— Ricky Gervais

Twitter, 17 November 2013; quoted in "Ricky Gervais Is PETA’s Person of the Year," PETA (23 December 2013) https://www.peta.org/blog/ricky-gervais-petas-person-year/

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“Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

“Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals. — Do not slave holders wish to make the black man other kind? — animals with affections, imitation, fear of death, pain, sorrow for the dead.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

respect. " Notebook B http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html" (1837-1838) page 231 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=233&itemID=CUL-DAR121.-&viewtype=side quoted in [2009, Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution, Adrian Desmond & James Moore, New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9780547055268, 23042290M, 115, http://books.google.com/books?id=V9cGkBj_8iYC&pg=PA115&dq="Animals+whom+we+have+made+our+slaves"] Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements

“Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for the animals. Do it for the environment, and do it for your health.”

Alec Baldwin (1954) American actor, writer, producer, and comedian

From the documentary film Meet Your Meat (2002), last sentence of the documentary.

“The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.”

Henry Becque (1837–1899) French dramatist

Le malheur de l'égalité, c'est que nous ne la voulons qu'avec nos supérieurs. Conférences, notes d'album, poésies, correspondance http://books.google.com/books?id=TTQT9Fs7JoUC&q=%22Le+malheur+de+l%27%C3%A9galit%C3%A9+c%27est+que+nous+ne+la+voulons+qu%27avec+nos+sup%C3%A9rieurs%22&pg=PA111#v=onepage (1926).

“The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.”

Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt … we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.”

Ingrid Newkirk (1949) British-American activist

USA Today, 1991 September 3
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“We cannot solve the problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

"Einstein's famous saying in Copenhagen", as quoted in a FBIS Daily Report https://books.google.de/books?id=DfQTAQAAMAAJ&q=%22We+cannot+solve%22: East Europe (4 April 1995), p. 45 Disputed

“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to make all people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves… The basis for peace is respecting all creatures… That's the basis, the beginning for peace. …We know we cannot defend or be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them - exploiting them in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.”

Cesar Chavez (1927–1993) American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist

Accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award from In Defense of Animals in 1992.

“Humans are the animals that manufacture weakness. We take wolves and we make them into dogs. We take buffalo and we make them into cows. We take stallions and we make them into geldings. We make things weak so that we may use them.”

Mark Rowlands (1962) British philosopher

The Philosopher and the Wolf https://books.google.it/books?id=FSJbBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT0 (Pegasus Books, 2009), ch. 4.

“Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.”

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