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Генри Спира — бельгийско-американский защитник прав животных, считающийся одним из самых эффективных защитников животных XX века. В 1974 году основал группу Animal Rights International. Известен успешной кампанией 1976 года против опытов на животных в Американском музее естественной истории, где проводились эксперименты на кошках для исследования их сексуальной жизни, а также полностраничной рекламой 1980 года в The New York Times с изображением кролика с пластырем на глазах и подписью «Сколько кроликов готов ослепить Revlon ради красоты?». Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Июнь 1927 – 12. Сентябрь 1998
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“It's the fight for human freedom. And the fundamental lesson is that the meek don't make it. But audacity must be fused with attention to detail, with an awareness of social attitudes, power relations and scientific possibilities.”

Контексте: There is a rich tradition to help answer this question ["What can be done?"]. It's the fight for human freedom. And the fundamental lesson is that the meek don't make it. But audacity must be fused with attention to detail, with an awareness of social attitudes, power relations and scientific possibilities.

“We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable—the victims, all those dominated, oppressed, and exploited. And it is the nonhuman animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic, and socially sanctioned of all.”

Контексте: We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable—the victims, all those dominated, oppressed, and exploited. And it is the nonhuman animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic, and socially sanctioned of all. What can be done? What are the patterns underlying effective social struggles?

“The odd thing is, despite The Permanent Revolution being on the bookshelves, they would explain everything by going back and finding a quote from Trotsky or from Lenin in order to explain things, as opposed to explaining how things were in the real world.”

Контексте: It was very dispiriting because a lot of things needed to be done. One of the things that happened was, if you had a good rank-and-file activist in a trade union situation, they would make them an offer to become part of the staff—at which point the person was totally lost to the campaign where they were a catalyst and became part of an apparatus that was basically going nowhere. The odd thing is, despite The Permanent Revolution being on the bookshelves, they would explain everything by going back and finding a quote from Trotsky or from Lenin in order to explain things, as opposed to explaining how things were in the real world.... They were basically just living in their own universe as opposed to making real life connections.

“If you see something that's wrong, you've got to do something about it.”

Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and The Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer (1998).