In 1993, Paola Cavalieri and I founded The Great Ape Project, an organization dedicated to the idea of recognizing that great apes have a moral status befitting their nature as self-aware beings who are capable of thought and have rich and deep emotional lives. At a minimum, they should have the rights to life, liberty, and protection from torture that we grant to all members of our own species, regardless of their intellectual abilities.
在1993年，帕奥拉·卡瓦利艾里和我联手成立了一名为“大猩猩计划”的组织，致力于使人们认识到大猩猩在本质上都是拥有自我意识的存在，是一种拥有思考能力且感情丰富而深刻的生命，同时也应当拥有与这种本质相适应的道德地位。至少在最低限度上，无论其智力程度高低，这些大猩猩应当如同我们赋予人类所有成员的那样，拥有生存，自主和免遭折磨的权利。