Gary Yourofsky Quotes

#1. If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.

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#2. What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey, rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members.

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#3. Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they're not enslaved, then what are they? Free?

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#4. 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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#5. If it's not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?

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#6. How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?

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#7. Stop filtering your nutrients through somebody else's body.

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#8. If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.

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#9. You know what's more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn't causing any harm.

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#10. Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-

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#11. I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

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#12. My goal is simple. All I want to do is re-connect people with animals. Awaken some emotions and some feelings and some logic, that is been buried and suppressed, intentionally, by our society.

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#13. Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying, Unless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills.

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#14. If people want to be real meat eaters, I'd love to see people eat raw flesh from the bone, down to the bone with nothing left but the bones, day after day after day.

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