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Fighting for animal protection of any kind is often a difficult and seemingly never-ending up high battle. News headlines can reek of despair and fresh petitions crop up daily urging us to end every sort of cruelty imaginable (and in some cases, simply beyond belief).
Truly, issues abound at every corner – from farmed animal abuses to endangered species conservation – and they just always seem to keep on coming.
Yet, victories are possible and many occur each and every year thanks to hardworking nonprofits, grassroots groups, and active citizens.
We have helped a lot of animals even just within the past decade, but as always, there is a long way to go.
To inspire us to keep moving forward, check out the following 14 quotes — all serve to remind us of exactly who we’re fighting for and why, which is something we must never forget. Committing these to memory (or better yet, knowing them by heart!) may just help you regain your strength in times of struggle and reinvigorate your desire to do good for the animals of this Earth.
Have a favorite quote that you don’t see here? Tell us what it is with a comment below!
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
For years I have kept a file of my favorite quotes on my computer – here are a few to add to your list:
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of the proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy." ~ Plutarch
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
"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals."- Albert Einstein
"One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them." – Martin Luther King, Jr.