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“was inspired by the naturopath Alvenia M. Fulton to believe in diet as part of civil rights activism, “believing that bad diets bolstered the forces of white”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

“Flavor was and is secondary to symbolism when it comes to eating meat or rejecting it.”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

“Eating ethically is an effort, a constant attempt to make choices regarding the consumption of food and goods that treads as lightly on the planet as possible while doing the least harm to humans and nonhuman animals.”
― Alicia Kennedy, No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

“Eugenio María de Hostos, the great Puerto Rican educator, summed it up as follows: “How sad and overwhelming and shameful it is to see [Puerto Rico] go from owner to owner without ever having been her own master, and to see her pass from sovereignty to sovereignty without ever ruling herself.”
― Nelson A. Denis, War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony