.....The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
..........— Alice [Malsenior] Walker (1944 - ), African-American author, 1983 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, page 14.
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