Ahinsa is Not Religion

Author(s): Clare Rosenfield, Linda Segall, Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Jain Meditation International Centre

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The highest religion is to rise to universal brotherhood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.
-Nanak
Let us pray that our food should not be coloured with animal blood and human suffering.
-Chitrabhanuji
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness.
-Lord Dowding
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.
-Dr. Annie Besant
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
-Charles Robert Darwin
Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.
- Jesus Christ
Cruclty is the obvious cancer of modern civilization.
-Rev. A. D. Beldon
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
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