Cleveland Amory
Overview
 
Cleveland Amory was an American author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

 who devoted his life to promoting animal rights
Animal rights
Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...

. He was perhaps best known for his books about his cat, named Polar Bear, whom he saved from the Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

 streets on Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve refers to the evening or entire day preceding Christmas Day, a widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth that takes place on December 25...

 1977. The executive director of the Humane Society of the United States described Amory as "the founding father of the modern animal protection movement."
Amory attended Harvard
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 where he was president of The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper of Harvard University, was founded in 1873. It is the only daily newspaper in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is run entirely by Harvard College undergraduates...

.
Quotations

"'A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better."

"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."

"I can't take a well-tanned person seriously."

"The facts of life are very stubborn things."

"The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it."

"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."

 
x
OK