Quotes
Authors
Gary L. Francione

"We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good."

-- Gary L. Francione

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“I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender”

Source : "Song: "The Pretender"". 1976.
“Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.”
“The rigidity of those pledges is something I donâ€™t like. The circumstances change and you canâ€™t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. Itâ€™sâ€”who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?”
“We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.”
“The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.”
“The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, whatâ€™s the right way to tell a particular story.”
“So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.”

Source : Sam Donaldson (1988). “Hold On, Mr. President”, Fawcett Books
“Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.”

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