Animal Rights Advocate

🇬🇧Richard D. Ryder

Psychology

b. 1940

"Our first moral concern should always be with the individual who is the maximum sufferer."

🇺🇸Rod Coronado

Music

b. 1966

"What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time — and that is working within the system."

🇺🇸Edward Payson Evans

Education

1831–1917

"f animals may be rendered liable to judicial punishment for injuries done to man, one would naturally infer that they should also enjoy legal protection against human cruelty."

🇺🇸Taraji P. Henson

Entertainment

b. 1970

"Dogs, to me, are like children. They are the closest thing to God. They are so pure in their love, and all they do is aim to please."

🇫🇷Savitri Devi

Social Activism

1905–1982

"I asked Savitri ... how she would have received her mother. Without batting an eyelid, she said: 'I would have shot her.'"

🇮🇳Maneka Gandhi

Politics

b. 1956

"When I was studying in Bangalore, temperature would be around 21 degree and now it is 31 degree. The drastic increase in the level of temperature is due to industrialisation."

🇺🇸Melanie Joy

Literature

b. 1966

"We love dogs and eat cows not because dogs and cows are fundamentally different—cows, like dogs, have feelings, preferences, and consciousness—but because our perception of them is different."

🇫🇷Brigitte Bardot

Music

1934–2025

"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."