To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. Peoples attitudes would change. It would be a better place. – Tommy Chong
We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out. – Tommy Chong
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. – Tommy Chong
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. – Gary L. Francione