Becky Mandelbaum > Quotes

“Tonight, we participate in a holiday that has, at its heart, a historical lie. A holiday that celebrates an imaginary friendship between settlers and indigenous peoples, that erases all mention of the genocides exacted upon this land’s rightful stewards. Tonight, in defiance of this lie but in reverence to its themes of gratitude and comradery, we celebrate not the people who stole this land from those who called it home long, long before us, but the land itself, land that has sustained us and our fellow animals despite the atrocities committed upon it.”
― Becky Mandelbaum, The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals: A Novel