"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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Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is taught that animals have no rights that we are bound to respect, and were only made for man, to be petted, spoiled, slaughtered or enslaved.

— John Muir