We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

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About Anna Sewell

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Anna Sewell (; 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) was an English novelist who wrote the 1877 novel Black Beauty, her only published work. It is considered one of the top ten best-selling novels for children, although the author intended it for adults. Sewell died only five months after...

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There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls, and they say, "Because it's such a beautiful animal. " There you go. Well, I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of her.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same: no recognition of rights — only murder in one form or another.

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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. When man learns better, he will learn to befriend even these. Today he does not even know how to befriend a man of a different religion or from a different country.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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It was quite incomprehensible to me …why in my evening prayers I should pray for human beings only. So when my mother had prayed with me and had kissed me goodnight, I used to add silently a prayer that I had composed myself for all living creatures. It ran thus: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace. "

—Albert Schweitzer

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