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We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.

Ingrid Newkirk

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Ingrid Newkirk
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 11
Activist
Animal Rights Advocate
Film Director
Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk
Animal
Right
Life
Peta
Advocate
Animals

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Everything we do is based at adults.
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That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those others they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis didn't eat the objects of their derision.
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When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.
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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
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.
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Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.
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I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.
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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.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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