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“However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution.”
― Thomas Sowell, Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?

“If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.”
― Paul Watson

“Kyle: I believe as people that we are above animals.
Me: Are you above a horse?
Kyle: Yes.
Me: So why not kill the horse then?
Kyle: Because I don’t have to.
Me: You don’t have to kill the cows or chickens or pigs either.
Kyle: To fulfil what I feel I need from my diet I do.
Me: Need or want?
Kyle: Yeah, that’s fair.
Me: Is it a need or a want?
Kyle: I guess you’re right.”
― Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater

“One of the easiest ways to do this is to be mindful of how we use words like ‘you’ and ‘your’. During a conversation with a meat eater called Cam, he declared that he ‘definitely loves animals’. I could have said, ‘Proclaiming that you love animals while still eating meat means you’re a hypocrite,’ but I instead said, ‘Can you love them if you pay for them to be killed needlessly?’ In response he smiled knowingly and said, ‘See, that’s a good question.”
― Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater