"From experiences like these (seeing animals suffer), which moved my heart and often made me feel ashamed, there slowly grew up in me an unshakeable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another creature unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it. We ought all of us to feel what a horrible thing it is to cause suffering and death out of mere thoughtlessness."
Albert Schweitzer was one of the greatest humanitarians of the 20th century; he spent most of his time helping people in Africa by building hospitals and other outreach programs. He was very important to me growing up as he made the case that animals and humans were interconnected. He also believed that Jesus' philosophy calls his followers to find it in their heart to have Compassion for animals. He was saying this in the early 1900s, and had a great philosophy of having reverence for ALL life.
"The deeper we look into Nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is secret and we are united with ALL life that is in Nature.."
ALL life is valuable....
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