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Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

Ingrid Newkirk

Animal, Years, Tactics

"U.S. News & World Report" Magazine, April 8, 2002.

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I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

Ingrid Newkirk

Skins, France, Handbags

Speaking to onMilwaukee.com, February 1, 2005.

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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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The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.

Ingrid Newkirk

Dog, Cat, People

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All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Ingrid Newkirk

Silent, Cruelty, Tyranny

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

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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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If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway. But it would wake up consumers... I openly hope that it comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment.

Ingrid Newkirk

Heart, Animal, People

"PETA: Bring On Foot-and-Mouth Disease" by Alan Elsner, abcnews.go.com. April 2, 2001.

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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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Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

Ingrid Newkirk

Animal, Lines, Publicity

"USA Today" Newspaper, September 3, 1991.

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Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

Ingrid Newkirk

Animal, Research, Labs

"New York Daily News" Newspaper, December 7, 1997.

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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

Ingrid Newkirk

People, Ethical, Blindness

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Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

Ingrid Newkirk

Animal, Moral, Chance

"PETA and AIDS research". Michael McGraw (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), CNS News, May 15, 2006.

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I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

Ingrid Newkirk

Animal, Thinking, Pet

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Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

Ingrid Newkirk

Distance, Animal, Return

"What are We Talking About? The Harper's Forum Book". Book by Jack Hitt, 1989.

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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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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

Ingrid Newkirk

Home, Dying, Shelter

"What the AKC Won’t Tell You About Its Top 10 Breeds" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.

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Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

Ingrid Newkirk

Animal, Tests, Compare

"Top Scientific Minds Declare That We Are Just One Among Many Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.

Ingrid Newkirk

Girl, Dog, Horse

"THINK TANK; Yes, but Did Anyone Ask The Animals' Opinion?" by Sarah Boxer, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 2001.

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

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Thinking

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

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I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.

Ingrid Newkirk

Animal, Trying, Gone

"Mother nature (part two)". Interview with Michael Specter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2003.

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I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

Ingrid Newkirk

Animal, Thinking, Meat

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...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

Ingrid Newkirk

Animal, May, Revolution

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Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

Ingrid Newkirk

Pain, Animal, Joy

"Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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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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