Ньюкирк, Ингрид цитаты

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  

✵ 11. Июнь 1949
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“It [animal research] is immoral even if it's essential.”

Washington Post 1989 May 30.
On animal research and activism against it

“If anyone did that, I absolutely apologize. … Because everything we do is based at adults. We're asking adults be responsible. You were telling me about giving your children meat and milk. They're going to be to grow up to be tubs of lard. They're getting heart attacks.”

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

“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

“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

“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

“Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.”

Washingtonian Magazine, August, 1986.
On animal research and activism against it

“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

“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 are all mammals”

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