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You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.

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Paul Watson
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 2
Activist
Environmentalist
Naval Officer
Sailor
City of Toronto
Paul Franklin Watson
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Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die
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There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.
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If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.
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It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.
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Social change comes through people.
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I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.
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Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.
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We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.
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I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.
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Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.
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The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it.
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