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Written by Sun, Co-Founder of Gentle World
“We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a part of human nature so tender, so vulnerable that we keep it closeted deep inside us, fearing it cannot survive so dangerous a world. Although it manages to peek out in those rare moments when we cry out against injustice or secretly cringe at the sight of violence, it is seldom seen or heard and even less often heeded. But, on the rare occasions when we choose to follow its will, this vegan inside us moves a little closer to the closet door.
Vegan choices – unlike personal ones, such as the books we read, the movies we see or where and with whom we live – are not based on our likes and dislikes, but on the indomitable will of this empathetic part of our nature, which, however much ignored, persists in trying to convince us, at every turn, to make the more compassionate choice.
It is that part of us that reminds us, lest we forget, that as precious as our individual right to life and liberty is, when we violate that right by denying anyone else the same, we are wrong. And that wrong can never be right, even when its victims are other than human.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/the-vegan-inside-us.html#ixzz2kLTWVAfz
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