Advocate Quote by Ingrid Newkirk

Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're…

— Ingrid Newkirk

We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their…

— Ingrid Newkirk

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether,

— Ingrid Newkirk

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

— Ingrid Newkirk

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism.

— Ingrid Newkirk

You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

— Ingrid Newkirk

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

— Ingrid Newkirk

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

— Ingrid Newkirk

The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it,

— Ingrid Newkirk