Don’t get me wrong me and my family are vegan’s and consider ourselves pro life with civil rights for all so when Obama talks civil rights it should be for all beings.

I’d like to share the following quotes. Perhaps it’s a little too much but sometimes you have no choice.

“None so blind as those who will not see.” – Matthew Henry

“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.” – Socrates (469-399 B.C.)

“The lower animals, like man, MANIFESTLY feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.” – C. Darwin (It has nothing to do with intelligence!)

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself…” – George Bernard Shaw, Writer, Nobel laureate

“How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God’s omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?” – Henry W. Longfellow

“Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game.” – Paul Rodriguez

“There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel laureate

“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
“The world, we are told, was made especially for man-a presumption not supported by all the facts… Why should MAN value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation”? – John Muir, Naturalist and explorer (1838-1914)
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” – Thomas Edison

“Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.” – Milan Kundera
“The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.” – Christine Stevens
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” – Alice Walker

“There will come a day when such men as myself will view the slaughter of innocent creatures as horrible a crime as the murder of his fellow man…a human being is a part of the whole, called by us the ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures…” – A. Einstein, Nobel Prize

“Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species?…it is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.” – M. Twain

“All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?” – Buddha

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies…very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit…the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought…” – Albert Schweitzer

“…a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom…” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.” – Bertrand Russell

“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other.” – Henry D. Thoreau

“Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by what is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?” – Pierre Troubetzkoy

” Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” Albert Einstein

-Michael