Gemma Beaconsfield

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“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

“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
― Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics), The Principles of Morals and Legislation