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I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
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The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.
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Protesting is fundamentally submissive.
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In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.
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Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
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Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.
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I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.
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Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
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You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.
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I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so.
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Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.
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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy.
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Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
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In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.
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Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.
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Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head.
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Every fish in the ocean is in danger.
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I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.
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Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.
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The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
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Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.
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Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
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I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'
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The sealing industry is dying.
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