“Raystede has grown in thirty-five years from two of us to forty of us, from four hundred of us to eight thousand of us, and also many Friends who support us from without but are not necessarily termed 'Friends of Raystede'. One looks around the charitable organisations of the country and wonders where is all this leading us? and why are charities needed? No charities should be needed on behalf of animals if human beings behaved correctly towards all life.”

Sensible Pets and Silly People [1990], page 181, by Miss M Raymonde-Hawkins, founder of Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare, East Sussex.

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