Tom Regan: "I'm an Extremist!" (Amazing speech)
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Channel: Kinder World · 2015 · Education
This piece was taken from Tom Regan's speech during an anti-vivisection protest on April 24, 1988, held in Los Angeles, California. Original video: https://youtu.be/zIKcPthHTz8 Culture & Animals Foundation: http://cultureandanimals.org "The position that we hold — the abolitionists position — is often said to be “extreme,” and those of us who hold it are said to be “extremists.” The unspoken suggestions are that extreme positions cannot be right, and that extremists must be wrong. But I am an extremist when it comes to rape — I am against it all the time. I am an extremist when it comes to child abuse — I am against it all the time. I am an extremist when it comes to sexual discrimination, racial discrimination — I am against it all the time. I am an extremist when it comes to abuse of the elderly — I am against it all the time. The plain fact is, moral truth is often extreme, and must be, for when the injustice is absolute, then one must oppose it — absolutely." ~Professor Tom Regan
