Ingrid Newkirk Quotes - Page 2

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• There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Two, Three

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Thinking, Pet

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• A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

  Ingrid Newkirk

  People, Ethical, Blindness

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• I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Skins, France, Handbags

  Speaking to onMilwaukee.com, February 1, 2005.

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• When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Loneliness

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• Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

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  Dog, Animal, Boys

  Vogue, September 1, 1989.

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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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• Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Research, Peta

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1986.

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• If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Father, Heart

  "Animal-Research Labs Increasingly Besieged" by Michael Specter, www.washingtonpost.com. May 30, 1989.

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• All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Silent, Cruelty, Tyranny

  "Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

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  Animal, Suffering, World

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• Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Pain, Children, Rights

  "Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Home, Dying, Shelter

  "What the AKC Won’t Tell You About Its Top 10 Breeds" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Tests, Compare

  "Top Scientific Minds Declare That We Are Just One Among Many Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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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.

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  Animal, Years, Tactics

  "U.S. News & World Report" Magazine, April 8, 2002.

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• A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Fighting, Thinking

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• Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

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  Animal, Moral, Chance

  "PETA and AIDS research". Michael McGraw (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), CNS News, May 15, 2006.

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• Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Lines, Publicity

  "USA Today" Newspaper, September 3, 1991.

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• I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking

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

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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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• I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Thinking, Meat

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• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Pain, Animal, Joy

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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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.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Trying, Gone

  "Mother nature (part two)". Interview with Michael Specter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2003.

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• When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

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  Home, Animal, Land

  Reason Magazine, June 1990.

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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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