“The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.”
Source: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
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"So you did, but you did not mention the names of the others!" He looked at me for an instant and said inquiringly as though something had struck him:
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