1.
The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings.
Rod Coronado
2.
I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.
Rod Coronado
3.
As Earth warriors, we choose to be participants in the ancient battle between good and evil. On our side stand the waters and wind, and all things wild and of the Earth. On the other side, consumed with greed and in persuit of power, control and money, stand all the dark forces that lay waste to Her.
Rod Coronado
4.
Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.
Rod Coronado
5.
I wish I could do it again, only I wish I could take all of the animals out of the environmental fur farm ... I have absolutely no regrets, and I hope the same thing continues to happen at MSU and every other college campus that does animal research.
Rod Coronado
6.
I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.
Rod Coronado
7.
Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn.
Rod Coronado
8.
Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started to slash tires, we started to rescue animals from factory farms and vivisection breeders, and we graduated to breaking into laboratories . As long as we emptied the labs of animals, they were still easily replaced. So that's when the ALF in this country, and my cell, started engaging in arson.
Rod Coronado
9.
When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes a lot of sense to cause a million in damage with just $100 of investment. That's a better return than any other form of activism I've been involved in.
Rod Coronado
10.
You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.
Rod Coronado
11.
What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system.
Rod Coronado