“You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where we are still fighting for fundamental human rights, whether it’s the rights of immigrants to start a new life, or the rights of gays to marry, or the rights of women to choose. You weren’t supposed to be graduating into a world where oil still drove policy and environmentalists have to fight relentlessly for every gain. You weren’t. But you are. And for that, I’m sorry.â€
- Arthur Sulzberger Jr. , May 21, 2006.
“The truth is the Democrats are the party of moral values. We’re altruists.”
- Howard Dean
“I’m sick of talking about values, sick of pretending I have them or care more about them than I really do. Sick of bending and twisting the political causes I do care about to make them qualify as ‘values’.”
- Michael Kinsley
“[My personal and scholarly mission is] to invert all power . . . to love myself and other Chicanas and women of color, to revere the Chicana . . . is the revolution I speak of now. . . . I prefer to think of myself as one who places women, especially Third [W]orld and lesbians, in the forefront of my priorities.”
- Emma Perez
“My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism.”
- Henry Spira , 1989.
“When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of the happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of a happier life for the second. Therefore, if the killing of the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others it would . . . be right to kill him.”
- Peter Singer
“Trees and rocks have rights to their own freedom, to go their own way untrammeled and unfettered by man.”
- Michael McCloskey
“[E]radicating smallpox was wrong. [Smallpox] played an important part in balancing ecosystems.”
- John Davis
“While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.”
- David Brower
“We in the Green Movement aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels.”
- Carl Amery
