“Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.”
― Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World
― Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World
“The workplace would allow parents to work part time, to share jobs, to take personal leaves to give birth, tend to a sick child, or care for a well one. As Delores Hayden has envisioned in Redesigning the American Dream, it would include affordable housing closer to places of work and perhaps community-based meal and laundry services.”
― The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home
― The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home
“How come when girls play with gender it's a sign of strength and when boys play with gender it's a sign of weakness?”
― Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son
― Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son
“Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.”
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“Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.”
― The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
― The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
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