Animal "Rights" Quotes:

"[A]s the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship--enjoyment at a distance." Ingrid Newkirk, PETA President, "Just Like Us? Toward a Notion of Animal Rights," Harper's, August 1988, p. 50

"We need a drastic decrease in human population if we ever hope to create a just and equitable world for animals" Freeman Wickland, Animal Liberation League, & editor of "No Compromise," September 1996

"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're all mammals." Ingrid Newkirk, PETA President The Washington Times August 29, 1999

"We need a drastic decrease in human population if we ever hope to create a just and equitable world for animals" Freeman Wickland, Animal Liberation League, & editor of "No Compromise," September 1996

Audience member: "If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or the dog?" Regan, "If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog." Tom Regan, "Animal Rights, Human Wrongs" speech at University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 27, 1989

"Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses." Ingrid Newkirk, PETA founder, President & former national director, Washington Post, November 13, 1983