But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse. Our task must be to free ourselves . . . Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are people who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and it never will. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.