Cleveland Amory (1917–98) was an American author who devoted his life to promoting animal rights. He was “the founding father of the modern animal protection movement.”
Born in Nahant, Massachusetts, Amory belonged to a family of wealthy Boston merchants. After graduating from Harvard, he built a career as a writer, humorist, and humanitarian. He wrote a series of popular books regarding the pretensions and customs of society, The Proper Bostonians (1947,) The Last Resorts (1952,) and Who Killed Society? (1960.) He had a long career as a reporter and writer for magazines and as a television and radio commentator.
Amory was celebrated for the trilogy about his cat, named Polar Bear, whom he saved from the Manhattan streets on Christmas Eve in 1977. The trilogy consisted of The Cat Who Came for Christmas (1988,) The Cat and the Curmudgeon (1990,) and The Best Cat Ever (1993.) Amory established The Fund for Animals and devoted much of his life to promoting animal rights, particularly protecting animals from hunting and vivisection.
Amory’s Ranch of Dreams (1997) detailed the lives of abused animals at the Black Beauty Ranch in Texas, an animal sanctuary that he helped establish.
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What this world needs is a new kind of army – the army of the kind.
—Cleveland Amory
Topics: Kindness
The people that set one animal against another haven’t the guts to be bullies themselves. They’re just secondhand cowards.
—Cleveland Amory
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