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.
Ingrid NewkirkTo me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
Ingrid NewkirkWhen it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Ingrid NewkirkI'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.
Ingrid NewkirkBulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
Ingrid Newkirk