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Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny…

— Gary L. Francione

“We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism,…

— GaryLFrancione

Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

— Joan Dunayer

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

— Michael Ignatieff

Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash…

— Peter Singer

I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples…

— Frans de Waal

The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it…

— Elizabeth S. Anderson

“Animal rights theory seeks to move at least some nonhumans from the “thing” side of the “person / thing” dualism over to the “person”…

— Francione, Gary L

“Prejudice against other animals arises from socially promulgated beliefs that reflect a speciesist ideology, created to legitimate economic exploitation or elimination of a competitor.…

— David A. Nibert

99% of our uses of animals, including our numerically most significant use of them for food, do not involve any sort of necessity or…

— Gary L. Francione

“When animal rights activists or moral philosophers try to draw moral judgments about wild animal populations, they often suffer from a bad case of…

— John Durant

The problem is that for almost any feature of humanity that you can name, whether it's the ability to suffer, whether it's the capacity…

— Dale Jamieson