Animal Rights Activists Quotes - Page 2

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

  Daryl Hannah

  Animal, Rights, Humanitarian

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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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• Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of "experiments" banned long ago.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory farms, right-wing hate groups are free to organize, parade, arm themselves to the hilt and murder with chilling regularity. It’s time for our society to confront this very real threat.

  Amy Goodman

  Hate, Real, Home

  FaceBook post by Amy Goodman from Apr 17, 2014

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• As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

  Shane Barbi

  Fighting, Animal, Rights

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• I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.

  Robert Paul Weston

  Animal, Rights, Cruelty

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?

  Moby

  Animal, Rights, Years

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals involved (the Golden Rule), and because they push the envelope, moving us closer to the compassionate world that all animal rights activists are working toward...On the other hand, working toward welfare reforms has the immediate benefit of helping improve animals' lives today and acts as a crucial stepping stone toward animal liberation.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Animal, Rights

  "Getting from A to Z: Why Animal Activists Should Support Incremental Reforms to Help Animals" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2011.

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• The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Native American

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Spirit-Filled Family”, Harvest House Pub

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• I had a couple of experiences as a kid with animals where I hurt them, kind of unintentionally, and when I saw that a human being can hurt an animal it really affected me. And my kids...they became animal rights activists.

  Sean Astin

  Hurt, Couple, Kids

  "Sean Astin talks about his eclectic faith journey, his love of animals and his role in an upcoming Christian comedy from the Erwin Brothers". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year.

  River Phoenix

  Real, Animal, Rights

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

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• Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it.

  Dick Gregory

  Pain, Animal, Rights

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