Animal Rights Quotes - Page 16

• Any state with an initiative process is on our radar.

  Jennifer A. Hillman

  Animal, Initiative, States

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• I'm not saying people should go out and start killing," the California-based Vlasak says. But he's not saying activists shouldn't kill either, even though he's a doctor, devoted to mending people. "There's a lot of violence used against animals" Vlasak rationalizes. And some of those responsible won't stop, he says, "until they are forced to stop.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Doctors, California

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• Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Ideas, Next

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• Things are picking up...It's not going to make this thing go away... don't think you're going to find anybody deterred...There's a lot of people willing to die for the cause.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Thinking, People

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• On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.

  Dan Mathews

  Animal, Leather Jackets, Next Steps

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• Violence has been a necessary component of every serious liberation struggle...Violence is not the only path to liberation, but likely an indispensable one...the Press Office would like to be clear on this matter: we support all the liberationists ­ from the graffiti artists and ALF liberator to the Animal Rights Militia, Justice Department and Revolutionary Cells.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Artist, Animal

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• Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Heart, Mean

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• When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes a lot of sense to cause a million in damage with just $100 of investment. That's a better return than any other form of activism I've been involved in.

  Rod Coronado

  Animal, Differences, Making A Difference

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• In light of the events on September 11, my country has told me that I should not cooperate with terrorists. I therefore am refusing to cooperate with members of Congress who are some of the most extreme terrorists in history.

  Craig Rosebraugh

  Country, Animal, Light

  Craig Rosebraugh (2004). “Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front”, p.220, Lantern Books

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• The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people... The slavery of animals has to be ended too.

  Benjamin Zephaniah

  Animal, People, Slavery

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• No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Pain, Eye, Animal

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• It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding many people have about animals today. When slaves were brought over from Africa, many people believed they were not humans, that they didn't have feelings. Many people believe that primates and other animals don't have feelings, too, but they do.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Animal, People

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• We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Suffering, Violence

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• A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs!

  William Kunstler

  Animal, Names, Eggs

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• I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Thinking, People

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.169, Routledge

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• Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

  George Schaller

  Animal, World, Wells

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• We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Rights, Slaughter

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• An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

  Anatole France

  Father, Animal, Men

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• The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community.

  Thomas Berry

  Animal, Community, Culture

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• He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Animal, Doe, Cruelty

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• Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.

  Ashley Montagu

  Pain, Eye, Animal

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• He who is not actively kind is cruel!

  John Ruskin

  Animal, Kind

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• Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.

  Alex Pacheco

  Winter, Animal, Snow

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• If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our opinion...There were always innocent people who got hurt somewhere along the way but it was important that those who oppressed one group of people be stopped, and we don't see the animal liberation struggle being substantially different from these other struggles.... A sustained campaign against a particular industry or a particular organization has the potential to be quite effective.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Hurt, Struggle, Mean

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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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