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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

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Ingrid Newkirk
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 11
Activist
Animal Rights Advocate
Film Director
Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.
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It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
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