““Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don’t; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside.””
![“[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their…” quote by Ingrid Newkirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9a9/ingrid-newkirk-3962_animal_i-believe-that-animals-have-a-worth-in-a_2942608.jpg)
