Ingrid Newkirk

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Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Animal
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Look out for your baby or your friend, of course. That is easy. The test of moral fiber is to stick up for those you relate to least, understand minimally, and do not think are that much like you.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Baby
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We are complete press sluts.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Animal
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[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their usefulness, or perceived usefulness, to us, but rather whether we have a right to use them at all.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Nature
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Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Animal
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Everything we do is based at adults.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Adults
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Winners don't eat wieners.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Animal
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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.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Animal
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More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Animal
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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.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Thinking
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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.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Hurt
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When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Heart
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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.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Labs
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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.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Thinking
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I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Collection: Thinking