“Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.”

Twitter, 17 November 2013; quoted in "Ricky Gervais Is PETA’s Person of the Year," PETA (23 December 2013) https://www.peta.org/blog/ricky-gervais-petas-person-year/

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