Animal Rights Activists Quotes

• No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Animal, Rights, Voice

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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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• If killing [animal research scientists] is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly be justified.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Research, Way

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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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• Hit them in their personal lives, visit their homes . Actively target U.S. military establishments within the United States... strike hard and fast and retreat in anonymity. Select another location, strike again hard and fast and quickly retreat in anonymity ... Do not get caught. DO NOT GET CAUGHT. Do not get sent to jail. Stay alert, keep active, and keep fighting.

  Craig Rosebraugh

  Military, Home, Fighting

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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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• If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.

  Tom Regan

  Dog, Baby, Retarded

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• Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Standards, Valuable

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front - sooner or later there's going to be someone getting hurt. And we have to accept that fact. It's going to happen. It's not going to hurt our movement. Our movement will go on. And it's important that we not let the bully pulpit of the FBI and the other oppression agencies stop us from what we're doing. They are the violent ones. They are the terrorists ... we have to keep doing what we're doing.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Hurt, Animal, Agency

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• We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.

  Alex Pacheco

  Animal, Rights, Retarded

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• In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors.

  Tim Daly

  War, Animal, Car

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• Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Sports, Dog, Fighting

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• I don't have a hands - on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals...

  Wayne Pacelle

  Growing Up, Animal, Hands

  "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt". Book by Ted Kerasote, www.humanewatch.org. 1994.

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• An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Brain, Important

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• If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.

  Norm Phelps

  Animal, Views, Rights

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• Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

  Florence King

  Animal, Rights, Giving

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• If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to.

  Tom Regan

  Mean, Animal, Disease

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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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• 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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• Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

  Alex Pacheco

  Animal, Arson, Causes

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• I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

  James Cromwell

  Believe, Animal, Rights

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• We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Generations, Extinction

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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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• If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Use, Way

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• Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

  Daryl Hannah

  Animal, Rights, Humanitarian

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