Bridget Irving > Bridget's Quotes

“If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the ways in which we discriminate until they are forcefully pointed out to us. A liberation movement demands an expansion of our moral horizons, so that practices that were previously regarded as natural and inevitable are now seen as intolerable.”
― Peter Singer, Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement

“The basic principle of equality does not require equal or identical treatment; it requires equal consideration. Equal consideration for different beings may lead to different treatment and different rights.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

“Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.”
― Peter Singer, Marx: A Very Short Introduction