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" Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on. "

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" Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth. "

" Social change comes through people. "

" Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion. "

" I don't care if I put people off. "

" Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy. "

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" Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth. "

" I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan. "

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" I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law. "

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" To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme. "

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" Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking? "

" 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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" I was doing a talk show in Vancouver, and somebody called in a bomb threat to protest my violence, which I thought was pretty strange. We had to evacuate. "

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" The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas. "

" Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling. "