Dan Matthews - Senior VP, PETA:
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Do you know that fat little guy
from Seinfeld? He has become the main pitchman for KFC, Jason Alexander.
And beginning in May he is going to star in the West Coast production of
'The Producers.' It's made for us. We can be slamming him as the play opens.
If we do this properly, he will wish he never saw a chicken. - The
New Yorker, April 14, 2003
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We will be just as ruthless as any
of our targets. We will go for the throat. - North Queensland Register
(Australia), November 1, 2007
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Bill Maher - Celebrity Spokesperson,
PETA:
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If ten people in America died of
mad cow disease, in the long run it would save probably millions of lives.
Because people would stop eating meat. That’s not a catty thing to say,
to say -- in the long run this is what I hope. - Upon accepting the
“Celebrity Animal Advocate of the Year" award at the Animal Rights 2003
convention
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Craig Rosebraugh - Former ALF/ELF
Spokesperson, PETA Grantee ($1,500):
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Physically shut down financial centers
… Using any means necessary, shut down the national networks of NBC, ABC,
CBS, CNN, etc. Not just occupations but actually engage in strategies and
tactics which knock the networks off the air … Spread the battle to the
... very heads of government and U.S. corporations ... Hit them in their
personal lives, visit their homes … Actively target U.S. military establishments
within the United States... strike hard and fast and retreat in anonymity.
Select another location, strike again hard and fast and quickly retreat
in anonymity ... Do not get caught. DO NOT GET CAUGHT. Do not get sent
to jail. Stay alert, keep active, and keep fighting. - Open letter
to activists, published on the Independent Media Center website (March
17, 2003)
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Rodney Coronado - Convicted arsonist/felony
conspirator, ALF/ELF/SHAC activist/advocate/spokesperson, PETA grantee
($70,000):
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I think [food producers] should
appreciate that we’re only targeting their property. Because frankly I
think it’s time to start targeting them. - Conference on Organized
Resistance, American University (January 26, 2003)
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Every time a police agency pepper-sprays
or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn.
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Conference on Organized Resistance, American University (January 26, 2003)
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Here’s a little model I’m going
to show you here. I didn’t have any incense, but -- this is a crude incendiary
device. It is a simple plastic jug, which you fill with gasoline and oil.
You put in a sponge, which is soaked also in flammable liquid -- I couldn’t
find an incense stick, but this represents that. You put the incense stick
in here, light it, place it -- underneath the ‘weapon of mass destruction,’
light the incense stick -- sandalwood works nice -- and you destroy the
profits that are brought about through animal and earth abuse. That’s about
two dollars. - Conference
on Organized Resistance, American University (January 26, 2003)
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As a direct-action warrior, it made
a lot of sense to me to attack institutions in the fur trade … We need
to destroy them by any means necessary. - Conference on Organized Resistance,
American University (January 26, 2003)
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Paul Watson, Founder & President,
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society:
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There are 30-million plus species
on this planet. They’re all earthlings. They’re all equal. Some are more
“equal” than others, I admit: earthworms are far more valuable than people.
- Animal Rights 2002 convention
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The fact is that we live in an extremely
violent culture, and we all justify violence if it’s for what we believe
in. - Animal Rights 2002 convention
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There’s nothing wrong with being
a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write the history. - Animal
Rights 2002 convention
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Dr. Jerry Vlasak - PCRM spokesperson;
Board Member, ADL-LA; Treasurer, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society; Scientific
Advisor, In Defense of Animals; married to Pamelyn Ferdin; banned from
the UK on the grounds his presence "would not be conducive to the public
good":
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If someone is killing, on a regular
basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in
one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable
solution. - on "Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!"" (Showtime cable network)
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I don’t think you’d have to kill
— assassinate — too many … I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives,
we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives. - Animal
Rights 2003 Convention
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It won’t ruin our movement if someone
gets killed in an animal rights action. It’s going to happen sooner or
later. The Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front — sooner
or later there’s going to be someone getting hurt. And we have to accept
that fact. It’s going to happen. It’s not going to hurt our movement. Our
movement will go on. And it’s important that we not let the bully pulpit
of the FBI and the other oppression agencies stop us from what we’re doing.
They are the violent ones. They are the terrorists … we have to keep doing
what we’re doing. - Animal Rights 2004 Convention
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Things are picking up…It's not going
to make this thing go away… don't think you're going to find anybody deterred…There's
a lot of people willing to die for the cause. - United Press International,
December 22, 2006
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Nothing is more violent and radical
than what’s being done to non-human animals in our society. If a
researcher won’t stop abusing animals and is stopped physically, whether
with the use of force, or is killed, I certainly wouldn’t lose sleep over
that idea. - Utah KUTV, April 24, 2008
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If killing [animal research scientists]
is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly
be justified. - Washington
Post, March 11, 2008
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Pamelyn Ferdin - President, SHAC;
Director, ADL-LA; married to Jerry Vlasak; banned from the UK on the grounds
her presence "would not be conducive to the public good":
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We want to make people who walk
down to a park, or walk their animals who are unaltered feel ashamed, feel
humiliated, that they dare have a companion animal who is unaltered when
there are thousands being killed in our city shelters because of this problem.
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Animal Rights 2004 Convention
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First, we must all be aware that
breeding equals killing. There is no adequate justification for the purposeful
or accidental breeding of any owned companion animal no matter what the
commercial value. - "Your
Pets are 'Cutered' When They're Neutered"
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Even AKC breeders who let you see
their facilities are in fact putting a price on the heads of animals who
look a certain way and have a certain blood line. But how can a person
base a dog or cats worth by this criteria? That's what the Nazi's did in
Germany. - "Your
Pets are 'Cutered' When They're Neutered"
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Campaign on Animal Defense League’s
website:
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Breeders must be eliminated! As
long as there is a surplus of companion animals in the concentration camps
referred to as “shelters”, and they are killing them because they are homeless,
one should not be allowed to produce more for their own amusement and profit.
If you know of a breeder in the Los Angeles area, whether commercial or
private, legal or illegal, let us know and we will post their name, location,
phone number so people can write them letters telling them ‘Don’t Breed
or Buy, While Others DIE.’ - September 2, 2003
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Breeders! Let’s get rid of them
too! - September 2, 2003
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Ingrid Newkirk - Founder &
President, PETA:
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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. - US News and World Report, April 8, 2002
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I openly hope that it [hoof-and-mouth
disease] comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit
from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like
existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good
for the environment. - ABC News interview, April 2, 2001
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I’m not only uninterested in having
children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby
is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
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New Yorker, April 23, 2003
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There is no hidden agenda. If anybody
wonders about -- what's this with all these reforms -- you can hear us
clearly. Our goal is total animal liberation. - Animal Rights
2002 Convention
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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.
- USA Today, September 3, 1991
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I am opposed to having children.
Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing
but vanity, human vanity.
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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.
- Washington Post, November 13, 1983
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Humans have grown like cancer. We're
the biggest blight on the face of the planet. - PETA Reader's Digest,
June, 1990
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The bottom line is that people don't
have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want
toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they
should seek it with their own kind........"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. - Harper's Magazine, Aug. 1988
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One day we would like an end to
pet shops and the breeding of animals. (Dogs) would pursue their natural
lives in the wild...They would have full lives, not waiting at home for
someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and
watch TV. - "Where Would We Be Without Animals?, Chicago Daily Herald,
March 1, 1990
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Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal
situation brought on by human manipulation. - Washington Magazine,
August 1986
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Dr. Steven Best - Co-founder, Center
on Animal Liberation Affairs; Co-founder, Animal Liberation Press Office;
professor of philosophy, U-Texas-El Paso; banned from the UK for "fomenting,
justifying or glorifying terrorist violence":
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We are not terrorists, but we are
a threat. We are a threat both economically and philosophically. Our power
is not in the right to vote but the power to stop production. We will break
the law and destroy property until we win. - International Animal Rights
Gathering, 2005
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Robin Webb - ALF Press Officer(UK);
former royal council member, RSPCA:
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There are about 2,000 people prepared
at any one time to take action for us … The children [of targeted scientists
and executives] are enjoying a lifestyle built on the blood and abuse of
innocent animals. Why should they be allowed to close the door on that
and sit down and watch TV and enjoy themselves when animals are suffering
and dying because of the actions of the family breadwinner? They are a
justifiable target for protest. - Sunday Herald (Scotland), Sept. 19,
2004
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David Barbarash - ALF Spokesperson
(North America):
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Property destruction is a legitimate
political tool called economic sabotage, and it’s meant to attack businesses
and corporations. - NPR radio show “The Connection”, January 7, 2002
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Bruce Friedrich, Vegan Campaign
Coordinator of PETA:
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If we really believe that animals
have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then,
of course we're going to be, as a movement, blowing things up and smashing
windows. - Animal Rights
2001 Convention
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Gary Yourofsky, founder of Animals
Deserve Adequate Protection Today and Tomorrow (ADAPTT), now employed as
PETA's Humane Education Lecturer:
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It's not about loving animals. It's
about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little
contact as possible with animals.
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Sometimes I think the only effective
method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be
forced to live the life of a cow on a feedlot, or a monkey in a laboratory,
or an elephant in the circus, or a bull in a rodeo, or a mink on a fur
farm. Then people would be awakened from their soporific states and finally
understand the horror that is inflicted on the animal kingdom by the vilest
species to ever roam this planet: the human animal! Deep down, I truly
hope that oppression, torture and murder return to each uncaring human
tenfold! I hope that fathers accidentally shoot their sons on hunting excursions,
while carnivores suffer heart attacks that kill them slowly. - University
of Southern Indiana Student , The Shield, January 24, 2008
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Every woman ensconced in fur should
endure a rape so vicious that it scars them forever. While every man entrenched
in fur should suffer an anal raping so horrific that they become disemboweled.
Every rodeo cowboy and matador should be gored to death, while circus abusers
are trampled by elephants and mauled by tigers. And, lastly, may irony
shine its esoteric head in the form of animal researchers catching debilitating
diseases and painfully withering away because research dollars that could
have been used to treat them was wasted on the barbaric, unscientific practice
vivisection. - University of Southern Indiana Student , The Shield,
January 24, 2008
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Wayne Pacelle, President, The HSUS:
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We're against animal fighting and
killing animals for fur…. We want Americans to eat fewer animals. -
DVM News, January 1, 2008
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We have no ethical obligation to
preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding
...One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic
animals. They are creations of human selective breeding. - Animal People
News, May 1, 1993
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We would be foolish and silly not
to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community,
[and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture. - Animal Rights
2002 Convention
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Our goal is to get sport hunting
in the same category as cock fighting and dog fighting. - Bozeman (MT)
Daily Chronicle, October 8, 1991
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Janine Motta, treasurer of the
New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance:
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We do not have the right to use
animals for any real or perceived need, whether it be food, clothing, entertainment,
medical issues. - Asbury Park Press. November 14, 2007
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