By people agility I mean possessing strong self-awareness, emotional intelligence, flexibility, conflict management, listening, and communications skills.

FORBES: Motherhood and Leadership Agility

Mindfulness enhances emotional intelligence, notably self-awareness and the capacity to manage distressing emotions.

FORBES: A Guide To Mindfulness At Work

The proposition that whales have rights is founded on the idea that they have a high degree of intelligence, and also have self-awareness of the sort that humans do.

ECONOMIST: A declaration of the rights of cetaceans

But if, within our own species, we don't regard differences in intelligence, reasoning ability, or self-awareness as grounds for permitting us to exploit the being with lower capacities for our own ends, how can we point to the same characteristics to justify exploiting members of other species?

BBC: EATING