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I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

I've become an animal rights activist.

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

To a certain extent, I think I've become an animal-rights person.

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

I'm an animal-rights person, actually. Big time.

I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.