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“We can decide what we mean by things like 6 and +, but once we do, the results of expressions like 6 + 6 are beyond our control. Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences. As we’ll see in the coming chapters, in mathematics our freedom lies in the questions we ask—and in how we pursue them—but not in the answers awaiting us.”
― Steven H. Strogatz, The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

“My innocuous presence, as I quietly sat downstairs in my wheelchair, made me feel as if I were condoning the discrimination that was built into the physical space of the art center, as if my presence were saying, “It’s OK, I don’t need to be accommodated—after all, being disabled is my own personal struggle.”
― Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

“For the first time in human history our planet has reached a concentration of four hundred parts per million of carbon dioxide, an amount that scientists have long held to be a tipping point into environmental catastrophe. It is widely accepted that one of the leading causes of this disaster is industrialized animal agriculture. As temperatures rise, global food shortages increase, and natural disasters take countless lives around the world, we must ask ourselves whether a taste for animal flesh is worth the increasing environmental devastation it has helped create.”
― Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

“Booee acted intelligent enough to impress, and emotional enough to inspire empathy, but he remained nonthreatening, “a sweet boy,” who was “guileless” and “forgiving”—the kind of being who would inspire sympathy in humans. What if, like Red Peter, imitating human beings was not something that pleased Booee? What if he did it because he was looking for a way out and for no other reason?”
― Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation