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All life is connected. The light we sense in ourselves is in others, too. Do not be part of extinguishing the light. We all suffer and are diminished when violence is inflicted. Go vegan, for them and yourself. #vegan #quaker #quakers #govegan

She conducts vigils for animals on their way to slaughter. She 'bears witness' as animal trucks arrive and tries to provide comfort to the animals by making eye contact with them and by singing, playing music, and reciting mantras. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018777910/the-singing-vegan-animal-welfare-activist-sandra-kyle #vegan #quaker #quakers #govegan

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. William Ralph Inge #vegan #quaker #quakers #govegan

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. Ralph Waldo Emerson #vegan #quaker #quakers #govegan

"By the 1650s Quakers were articulating a doctrine that individuals at peace with themselves belonged to a spiritual community, which had no use for coercion or violence. By 1661, Quakers issued a statement to Charles II condemning violence under any circumstance." The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, pp 144-145 #vegan #quaker #quakers #govegan

We are a People that follow after those things that make for Peace, Love, and Ʋnity, it is our desire that others feet may walk in the same Margaret Fell (1614-1702) #vegan #quaker #quakers #govegan

. . . the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral if anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea of mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism. Mahatma Gandhi #vegan #govegan https://www.mkgandhi.org/health/moralB/06moralbasis.php

"If we continually bear in mind the royal law of doing to others as we would be done by, we shall never think of bereaving our fellow creatures of that valuable blessing liberty, nor endure to grow rich by their bondage." Anthony Benezet (1713 - 1784) #slavery #vegan #quakers #govegan

Benjamin Lay, Quaker Activist and Abolitionist #vegan #quaker #quakers #govegan https://open.spotify.com/episode/0pzIhpRG4iheuHrypwRrv0?si=I1Zp_F5VQ4mrjSYqgjaGBg