Gemma Beaconsfield

“Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...”
― Rai Aren

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

“Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored”
― Alice Walker