Daniel

“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity. I made myself acquainted with Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes, such as boiling pototoes or rice, making hasty-pudding, and a few others, and then proposed to my brother that if he would give me, weekly, half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me. This was an additional fund for buying books.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography and Other Writings

“We are citizens of the most powerful country on earth—we are also citizens of a country that stands upon the wrong side of every liberation struggle on earth. Feel what that means.”
― Audre Lorde, I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings

“Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy. Lovelessness is a boon to consumerism.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.”
― Jules Michelet, Bible of Humanity