354 Quotes About Animal-rights

Animal testing, including vivisection, only tests the ability of the human being to be inhuman.”-Shenita Etwaroo

This downward spiral of major politics is a slap in the face, but it’s reality. Now we just have to fight back.”-Shenita Etwaroo

The day we become silent about the things that matter is the moment our lives begin to end.”-Shenita Etwaroo

A time will come in life when men will look at the maltreatment and killings of animals the same way they look on the murder of men.”-Shenita Etwaroo

What we need most is to realize that human beings are fantastic resources for change.” -Shenita Etwaroo

Equal rights for all includes both human beings and animals—with zero exceptions.”-Shenita Etwaroo

Inviting harmony into our lives can be as simple as smiling at someone who is downtrodden, because something as simple as a smile communicates human compassion and understanding.-Shenita Etwaroo

The theory behind vegetarian eating as the highest form of purity led me to campaign tirelessly for animal rights. Many times I considered animal rights to be more important than human priorities. I didn't realize until years later that I was developing an attitude towards animals I had rejected growing up in India. Some animals were becoming sacred in my eyes. And I was placing their value well above that of human beings.

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.