~Jamake Highwater from ANPAO

“Sometimes we grow up to be like everyone else, but sometimes we do not. People are always afraid of turning into something unusual, but they must not be afraid. We must be happy with whatever we are becoming. That is the way it is and that is the way it was intended to be.”

~Jamake Highwater from ANPAO

“Old Man said, . . . ‘Ah, it is better to make something than to do nothing. It is better to be something than to be nothing. It is better to know than to not to know. It is better to be than not to be.’”

~Jonathan Safran Foer from EATING ANIMALS

"Before child labor laws, there were businesses that treated their ten-year-old employees well. Society didn't ban child labor because it's impossible to imagine children working in a good environment, but because when you give that much power to a businesses over powerless individuals, it's corrupting. When we walk around think we have a greater right to eat an animal than the animal has a right to live without suffering, it's corrupting. I'm not speculating. This is our reality."

~Jonathan Safran Foer from EATING ANIMALS

"We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a hunk of wood and extreme to treat an animal like an animal."

~Jonathan Safran Foer from EATING ANIMALS

"But nature isn't cruel. And neither are the animals in nature that kill and occasionally even torture one another. Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it."

~Jonathan Safran Foer from EATING ANIMALS

"'If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.'"

~Michael Dorris from SEES BEHIND TREES

"'Every day can't be unusual,' my father said gently. 'Otherwise something wonderful wouldn't mean so much when it happened.'"