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"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." - MLK
"Moral philosophy [or art for that matter] is no substitute for political action. Still, it
can make a contribution. Its currency is ideas, and though it is those who act - those who write letters, circulate petitions, demonstrate, lobby, disrupt a fox hunt, refuse to dissect an animal or use
one in "practice surgery," or are active in other ways - though these are the persons who make a mark on a day-to-day basis,
histrory shows that ideas do make a difference. Certainly it is the ideas of those who have gone before... who have
helped move the call for the recognition of animal rights... past the stage of ridicule to that of discussion. It is
hoped that... this.... will play some role in advancing this great movement, the animal rights movement, toward the third
and final stage - the stage of adoption. To borrow words used in a different context by the distinguished American photographer
Ansel Adams, "We are on the threshold of a new revelation, a new awakening. But what we have accomplished up to this
time must be multiplied a thousandfold if the great battles are to be joined and won." - Tom Regan The Case for Animal
Rights
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