Ингрид Ньюкирк — активистка движения за права животных , писатель, президент и сооснователь крупнейшей в мире зоозащитной организации «Люди за этичное отношение к животным» ; автор серии книг об освобождении животных, включая «Free the Animals» . Wikipedia
“When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.”
"To Market, To Market," Los Angeles Times Magazine, 1992 March 22.
On animal research and activism against it
“It [animal research] is immoral even if it's essential.”
Washington Post 1989 May 30.
On animal research and activism against it
Montreal Mirror http://web.archive.org/20020703023107/www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/032102/news3.html
In response to people who say it is natural to eat meat
Interview on CNN's Crossfire http://www.animalrights.net/archives/year/2002/000094.html (2002); in response to Tucker Carlson's description of a PETA member campaigning directly to his four-year-old son outside a circus.
2002
Satya, January, 2001 http://www.satyamag.com/jan01/newkirk.html.
2001
During the hoof and mouth disease outbreak in Europe
speaking to onMilwaukee.com, 2005 February 1
2005
The Washington Times, 1999 August 29
1990s
“Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.”
Washingtonian magazine, 1990 February 1
Reader's Digest, June, 1990
1990s
“I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].”
The New York Daily News, 1997 December 7.
1990s
Montreal Mirror http://web.archive.org/20020703023107/www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/032102/news3.html.
On animal research and activism against it
“Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.”
Harper's, 1988 August 1.
1980s
ABC News interview, 2001 April 2
“Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.”
New York Daily News, 1997 December 7.
On animal research and activism against it
“We do not advocate "right to life" for animals.”
On a postcard to Nathan Winograd, a neuter/release and no-kill shelter advocate http://www.nokillnow.com/PETAIngridNewkirkResign.htm.
On pets
Washingtonian Magazine, August, 1986.
On animal research and activism against it
Satya, January, 2001 http://www.satyamag.com/jan01/newkirk.html.
On pets
“I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong.”
Montgomery County, MD, Journal 1988 February 16.
On animal research and activism against it
Veg Family, March, 2003 http://www.vegfamily.com/interviews/ingrid-newkirk.htm
The Chicago Daily Herald, 1990 March 1.
1990s
“In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.”
Newsday, 1988 February 21.
1980s
Vogue 1989 September 1
Attributed variants:
"When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy"
"A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They’re all animals." — Washingtonian magazine, 1986 August 1
The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p. 223.
1980s
The Washington Post, 1983 November 13
New York Times, 2001 http://www.animalrights.net/quotes.html http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/jamieson/233771_robert23.html.
2001
Ingrid Newkirk — taking on the critics http://www.animal-lib.org.au/more_interviews/ingrid/, Animal Liberation NSW.
2003
