Alice Walker

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Source: Preface to The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery by Marjorie Spiegel, Alice Walker, 1988

Authentic Alice Walker, from the preface she wrote for Marjorie Spiegel's The Dreaded Comparison. The parallel she draws between animal exploitation and the ideologies of racial slavery and patriarchy is the explicit argument of that preface, and this is its most-quoted sentence. Correctly attributed and accurately quoted.

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