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If "rights" exist at all … they cannot be consistently awarded to men and denied to animals, since the same sense of justice and compassion apply in both cases.

— Henry Stephens Salt

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Have the lower animals "rights?" Undoubtedly—if men have.

The emancipation of men from cruelty and injustice will bring with it in due course the emancipation of animals also. The two reforms are inseparably connected, and neither can be fully realized alone.

If "rights" exist at all—and both feeling and usage indubitably prove that they do exist—they cannot be consistently awarded to men and denied to animals, since the same sense of justice and compassion apply in both cases.

The ignorance, carelessness, and brutality are not only in the rough-handed slaughtermen, but in the polite ladies and gentlemen whose dietetic habits render the slaughtermen necessary.

I shall die ... as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.

Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters, George Hendrick, Illinois (1977)

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