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• The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.

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  Be Kind, Wonderful, Easy

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• Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

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  Elephants, Creative, Brain

  Ingrid Newkirk (2009). “The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble”, p.106, Macmillan

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• Winners don't eat wieners.

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  Animal, Animal Rights, Winner

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• If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.

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  Hurt, Mean, Thinking

  "In the Hot Seat, Part II: Activism and Controversy". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. January 2001.

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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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  Thinking, Animal, Voice

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• More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.

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  Animal, Attention, Cruelty

  The Boston Herald, August 25, 2002.

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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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  Heart, Animal, Labs

  "To Market, To Market". Los Angeles Times Magazine, March 22, 1992.

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• We are complete press sluts.

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  Animal, Animal Rights, Presses

  "The New Yorker" Magazine, April 14, 2003.

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• Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

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  Animal, Essentials, Research

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• Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

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  Animal, Numbers, America

  "Buyer Beware! The Lowdown on ‘Humane’ Meat and Eggs" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2012.

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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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  Labs, Nazi, Subjects

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

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• Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.

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  Thinking, Animal, Whales

  "Soldiering On, Part I: PETA at 20 Years". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. November/December 2000.

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• Everything we do is based at adults.

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  Adults

  "Is It Time to Investigate Investigator?; PETA Celebrates American Meat-Out Day". "Crossfire" with Bill Press and Tucker Carlson, edition.cnn.com. March 21, 2002.

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• We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

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  Thinking, Important, Special

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

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• I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.

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  Animal, Wish, Labs

  Ingrid Newkirk's remarks at the National Animal Rights Convention, June 27, 1997.

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