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We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable—the victims, all those dominated, oppressed, and exploited. And it is the nonhuman animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic, and socially sanctioned of all.

— Henry Spira Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and The Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer (1998)

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If you see something that's wrong, you've got to do something about it.

Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and The Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer (1998)

It's the fight for human freedom. And the fundamental lesson is that the meek don't make it. But audacity must be fused with attention to detail, with an awareness of social attitudes, power relations and scientific possibilities.

Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and The Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer (1998)

The odd thing is, despite The Permanent Revolution being on the bookshelves, they would explain everything by going back and finding a quote from Trotsky or from Lenin in order to explain things, as opposed to explaining how things were in the real world.

Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and The Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer (1998)

There is a rich tradition to help answer this question ["What can be done?"]. It's the fight for human freedom. And the fundamental lesson is that the meek don't make it. But audacity must be fused with attention to detail, with an awareness of social attitudes, power relations and scientific possibilities.

Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and The Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer (1998)

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