"In
Your Face"
by Chris DeRose
"Cowardice
asks the question, Is it safe? Expediency asks the question, Is it
politic? Vanity asks the question, Is it popular? But conscience asks
the question, Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take
a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but he
must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right."
-
Martin Luther King Jr.
"If a
man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit
to live."
-
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
-
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I don't
march because I like it. I march because I must."
-
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The
question is not 'Can they think?' but 'Can they suffer?'"
-
Jeremy Bentham, on animals' rights
"Anyone
who would experiment on animals wouldn't hesitate to lie about it."
-
George Bernard Shaw
"Medicine,
as the late Dr. Robert Mendelsohn said, has become a religion."
-
Chris DeRose
"Racism
and speciesism are two sides of the same coin -- they both stem from
hatred or contempt for whatever is different."
-
Chris DeRose
DeRose's book
is a no-nonsense look at the insane world of animal cruelty and the
bitter war of the animal liberationists against the vivisectionists.
His burning passion and straightforward honesty gives Idealists a
run for their money (I feel he's definitely some form of SP, probably
ESFP -- just one more example that NFs don't have the corner on idealism.
He particularly loves to quote from Martin Luther King, also an SP).
DeRose lives
what he preaches. He seems to have an uncanny grasp of the concepts
involved, but never drowns himself in abstract philosophical musings.
DeRose points out that deliberately inflicting pain and torment on
animals for the purpose of scientific study is wrong, and nothing
can ever justify it. The author comes across as plain down-to-earth
honest and sincere. I highly recommend this book to anyone just starting
out on the subject of practical animal rights and welfare as it is
pleasant and inspiring to read despite the ominous clouds of what
I can only describe as evil.
As a side note,
it's fascinating and at the same time frightening what vivisection
and animal cruelty tells us about human nature. I can sort of feel
the big picture beginning to come together now...
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