"It is of the utmost importance to emphasize the fact that, whatever the legal fiction may have been, or may still be,…"

"I shall die ... as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian."

"Oppression and cruelty are invariably founded on a lack of imaginative sympathy; the tyrant or tormentor can have no …"

"No League of Nations, or of individuals, can avail, without a change of heart. Reformers of all classes must recogniz…"

"The Animals, you say, were "sent" For man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, Why came th…"

"Have the lower animals "rights?" Undoubtedly—if men have."

"Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture o…"

"If "rights" exist at all—and both feeling and usage indubitably prove that they do exist—they cannot be consistently …"

"[The] notion of the life of an animal having 'no moral purpose,' belongs to a class of ideas which cannot possibly be…"

"The emancipation of men from cruelty and injustice will bring with it in due course the emancipation of animals also.…"