Animal Rights Activists Quotes

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Beautiful, Mom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Ends

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

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• Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of "experiments" banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

  Robert Winston

  Pain, Humility, Animal

  "The shame of our silence" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2006.

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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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• I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

  Ali MacGraw

  Animal, Rights, Remember

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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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• 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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• Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Cancer, Earth, Faces

  Washingtonian magazine, February 1, 1990.

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• We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Extinction, Problem

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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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• To those people who say, 'My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say, 'Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade-off.

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Sorry, Father

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• When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Justice

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• It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Fighting, Animal, Goal

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

  Alex Pacheco

  Animal, Arson, Causes

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• Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Eating Meat, Arrogant, Animal Rights

  "Washington City Paper" Newspaper, December 20, 1985.

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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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• We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Silly, Animal, Agriculture

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