The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas by Francine Patterson & Wendy Gordon Published in 1996 as part of The Great Ape Project: Equality beyond Humanity edited by Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer We present this individual for your consideration: She communicates in sign language, using a vocabulary of over 1,000 words. She also understands spoken English…

By Colin McGinn Published in 1996 as part of The Great Ape Project: Equality beyond Humanity edited by Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer As a child, you tend to take your position in life for granted, as written into the natural order of things. You were born, say, into a…

An excerpt from Life on the Mississippi By Mark Twain First Published in 1883 There was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with…

Special Thanks to DefendingDemocracyTogether.Org for maintaining RussiaTweets.com “And on the pedestal, these words appear” - Percy Bysshe Shelley With the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe V. Wade with the sorrowful Dobbs decision, people in the United States and around the world find themselves horrified by a renewed threat of…

By Ralph Waldo Emerson First Published in 1841 Nature centres into balls, And her proud ephemerals, Fast to surface and outside, Scan the profile of the sphere; Knew they what that signified, A new genesis were here. The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the…

Wireless the Only Way Now, Says Nikola Tesla — Mirror Plans Not Practicable. by Nikola Tesla First Published in the New York Times on May 23rd, 1909 To the Editor of The New York Times: Of all the evidence of narrow mindedness and folly, I know of no greater than the stupid belief that this little planet is singled out to be the…

By Nikola Tesla First Published in Collier’s Weekly on February 9th, 1901 The idea of communicating with the inhabitants of other worlds is an old one. But for ages it has been regarded merely as a poet’s dream, forever unrealizable. And yet, with the invention and perfection of the telescope and the ever-widening…

By Tatamkhulu Afrika First Published in 1998 Small round hard stones click under my heels, seeding grasses thrust bearded seeds into trouser cuffs, cans, trodden on, crunch in tall, purple-flowering, amiable weeds. District Six. No board says it is: but my feet know, and my hands, and the skin about my bones, and the soft…

Delivered on April 5th, 2022 (source) Dear Mrs. President! Dear Mr. Secretary General! Dear members of the Security Council and other participants of the meeting! Thank you for the opportunity. I am sure that all the representatives of the UN member states will hear me today. Yesterday I returned from…