John Stuart Mill wrote, "Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption." Tom Regan argues that it is in our hearts, not just in our heads that the "call for an end of it all, that demand of us that we overcome, for them - the voiceless, the powerless - the habits and forces behind their systematic oppression." It is in Mill's third stage, adoption, that will require both our hearts and our minds.
The following images are set to Tom Regan's speech before the British Parliament supporting the adoption of an animal Bill of Rights. A Bill of Rights protecting one basic right for all "experiencing subjects of a life": the right to be treated with respect, to be treated "in ways that do not reduce an individual to the status of a thing." Regan's argument proves that the "philosophy of animal rights is on the side of reason"; perhaps the images will move our hearts.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
- Albert Schweitzer
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