Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
Alice WalkerRead
We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.
Interpretation
What this quote means
We should recognize the inherent equality of all living beings due to our shared existence.
This quote by Alice Walker emphasizes the importance of acknowledging the equality among all creatures, derived from the simple fact that we all share existence on this planet. It invites us to reflect on our interconnectedness and to challenge any beliefs that promote hierarchy or superiority based on species, encouraging a collective responsibility towards empathy and respect for all life.
Themes
EqualityExistenceCreaturesLifeInterconnectedness
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech advocating for animal rights, you could quote Alice Walker to underline the importance of viewing all beings as equal.
More from Alice Walker
All quotes βJune Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
Alice WalkerRead
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
Alice WalkerRead
I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
Alice WalkerRead
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
Alice WalkerRead
One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
Alice WalkerRead
Similar quotes
For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this world, during this life, without any least reference to God, or to gods either great or small.
Aldous HuxleyRead
Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.
D.T. SuzukiRead
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WellsRead
What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday... He consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.
Colum MccannRead
And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.
Robert Penn WarrenRead
When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.
George R. R. MartinRead