Ingrid Newkirk Quotes

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• I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Dozen, Sometimes

  "Mother nature (part one)" by Michael Specter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2003.

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• The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Mean, Race, Dwelling

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• Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Slavery

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• In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Pet, Lovely

  "Newsday" Newspaper, February 21, 1988.

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• Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Food, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Suffering, World

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• We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Elephants, Voice

  Veg Family, March 2003.

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• Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Years, House, Six

  "Has PETA Gone Too Far With Billboard Featuring Mayor Giuliani?". "Crossfire" with Bill Press and Mary Matalin, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2000.

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• The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Ants, Clams, Form

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• I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Baby, Dog, Children

  "New Yorker" Magazine, April 23, 2003.

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• We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Home, Animal, People

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• A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Fighting, Thinking

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• Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Manipulation

  "Harper's Magazine", August 1, 1988.

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Animal

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

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• You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Home, Animal

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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• We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Peta, Right To Life

  "PETA's Sinister Interpretation of Animal 'Rights'" by Douglas Anthony Cooper, www.huffingtonpost.ca. July 3, 2012.

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• I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Space, Fruitcake, Stuff

  "The Washington Post", November 13, 1983.

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• When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Home, Animal, Land

  Reason Magazine, June 1990.

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• Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Tests, Aids

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• Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Cat, Euthanasia

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• Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Suffering, Principles

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• Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Pain, Children, Rights

  "Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Father, Heart

  "Animal-Research Labs Increasingly Besieged" by Michael Specter, www.washingtonpost.com. May 30, 1989.

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• Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Research, Fascism, Confinement

  Washingtonian Magazine, August 1986.

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