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[note: Compassionate Action for Animals was formerly known as Animal Liberation League] The Animal Liberation League and its President, Freeman Wicklund, have been one of the few groups in the animal rights movement to unequivocally denounce animal rights terrorism.

To those activists who disagree with strategic nonviolence, we share your frustration, desire for immediate victories, and an end to the intolerable oppression animals face, and we offer you our unconditional respect and moral support. We further invite you to read this booklet with an open heart, open mind, and a desire for understanding, that together we may find peace for all animals:

Strategic Nonviolence For Animal Liberation
by Freeman Wicklund

Thank you.

"We need the discipline to treat everyone--animal exploiters, ignorant or hostile members of the public, activists we disagree with, etc.--with respect. We must maintain a dignified and calm composure during all of our interactions with others, while also being truthful, humble, non-judgmental, nurturing, and open-minded."
 
~ Freeman Wicklund

"Do not invite me to a war rally, I am not available. But call me when the peace rally starts." ~ Mother Teresa

“I’ll never attend an anti-war rally. If you have a peace rally, invite me.” ~ Mother Teresa 

"When you have a gathering or organized event FOR peace, I'll be there." ~ Mother Teresa 

Rather than being anti-war or anti-anything, it's better to be pro-peace or pro-something positive and nurturing, or else you will become the very thing you are against.

Any success achieved by being against things, is a temporal illusion. Any success achieved by being for things, has a better chance to receive a permanent reality.



We must be the change, we wish to see in the world"
~ Gandhi

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