ABOLISH CH[ILD] SLAVERY!! ~ Anonymous (May 1, 1909)
Category Archives: 1900s
Our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves, and we believe that spiritual destiny of man is such that in time he will view with abhorrence the idea that men once fed on the products of …
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But justice is usually labeled as radical while injustice is often accepted as the standard
But justice is usually labeled as radical while injustice is often accepted as the standard. Yet we remember that once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow …
But veganism is one thing and one thing only
There are several roads to veganism and many individual views of it, but veganism is one thing and one thing only—a way of living which avoids …
Reformation always begins in the heart of a solitary individual
No great reform was ever projected or patronized by any powerful organization or influential individual at the outset. Reformation always begins in the …
The consequent inertia of the mass, most terrible of all resistance to overcome
These elements are entrenched wrong, the vested interests which thrive upon it, the cold-blooded indifference of those whose withers are unwrung, the timidity and selfishness of all who dread disturbance of established order, the fear of ridicule for the unpopular minority—the consequent inertia of the mass, most terrible of all resistance to overcome. ~ Edward …
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Lacto-vegetarianism is but a half-way house
The unquestionable cruelty associated with the production of dairy produce has made it clear that lacto-vegetarianism is but a half-way house between flesh-eating and a truly humane, civilised diet, and we think, therefore, that during our life on earth we should try to evolve sufficiently to make the “full journey” [to veganism]. ~ Donald Watson …
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William Lloyd Garrison attacked the monstrous wrong
Yet with no arms but his pen and his voice, with no funds and without a single subscriber to support his newspaper, [William Lloyd] Garrison attacked the monstrous wrong, and for a generation urged unrelenting war against it. Poverty and hardship, abuse, execration and contempt, the jail, the mob, and the danger of violent death, …
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And then there are people who don't eat meat because it's against their morals
We didn’t know many vegetarians years ago. Not eating meat became the thing to do some places in the ’60s, but the movement is much bigger in the ’90s. Personally, I don’t think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. It’s more fear of food—that whole thing that red meat is bad for you. And then …
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The slave power always laughed at the political and economic arguments against it
The slave power always laughed at the political and economic arguments against it. Calhoun the ablest defender of the system, was acute enough to see that slavery could survive only upon the ground that it was right. [William Lloyd] Garrison put aside all questions of policy or expediency, and demanded immediate and unconditional emancipation because …
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Quotes on Slavery 