I Don't Even Think Of Chimps As

If We Do Not Do Something To Help These Creatures, We Make A Mockery Of The Whole Concept Of Justice.

One Cannot Watch Chimpanzee Infants For Long Without Realizing That They Have The Same Emotional Need For Affection And Reassurance As Human Children.

A Sense Of Calm Came Over Me. More And More Often I Found Myself Thinking, "this Is Where I Belong. This Is What I Came Into This World To Do.

I Had Never Been Able To Believe That God Would Give Us Poor Frail Humans Only One Chance At Making It -- That We Would Be Assigned To Some Kind Of Hell Because We Failed During One Experience Of Mortal Life. ... So The Concepts Of Karma And Reincarnation Made Logical Sense To Me.

Cultural Speciation Had Been Crippling To Human Moral And Spiritual Growth. It Had Hindered Freedom Of Thought, Limited Our Thinking, Imprisoned Us In The Cultures Into Which We Had Been Born. . . . These Cultural Mind Prisons. . . . Cultural Speciation Was Clearly A Barrier To World Peace. So Long As We Continued To Attach More Importance To Our Own Narrow Group Membership Than To The ‘global Village’ We Would Propagate Prejudice And Ignorance.