My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three elephants chained to the cement floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Sadness, hopelessness and fear… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
I simply wish my parents would have taught me about speciesism and how it was just as evil as racism, sexism and heterosexism. Sadly,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes, or heroin?… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I've learned in the last 18+ years of interacting with over 60,000 people during my vegan lecture tour, it's that… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or carve out… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Placing a halo around your own head by saying 'I am a pacifist' and 'I don't believe in using violent tactics' doesn't make the… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Protecting the weak is the first step to enlightenment and being truly civilized. — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Sadly and criminally, many self-indulgent inactive pacifists have shunned me for being an outspoken supporter of X's 'by any means necessary' philosophy, even though… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members. — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
As for uniqueness, this is virtually nonexistent! And it's a shame that people think they're unique because they have a face ring, retro clothing,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution? — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
If it's not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach? — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too. — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
