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I have to speak up for animals
\nbecause they can\u2019t speak for themselves.<\/p>\n
I have to speak up for animals
\nbecause they are mother sentient beings too.<\/p>\n
I have to speak up for animals First They Came\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n They came first for the Communists, Then they came for the Jews, Then they came for the trade unionists, Then they came for me From Wikipedia: \u2018First they came…\u2019 is a famous statement attributed to Pastor Martin Niem\u00f6ller (1892\u20131984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. The text expresses, in a condensed form, the understanding of history presented by Niem\u00f6ller in a January 6, 1946 speech before representatives of the Confessing Church in Frankfurt\u2026 His poem is well-known, frequently quoted, and is a popular model for describing the dangers of political apathy, as it often begins with specific and targeted fear and hatred which soon escalates out of control.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have to speak up for animals because they can\u2019t speak for themselves. I have to speak up for animals…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[131,156],"class_list":["post-5826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-animal-welfare","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbecause any one of us can be reborn as animals too.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nand I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.<\/p>\n
\nand I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.<\/p>\n
\nand I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.<\/p>\n
\nand by that time no one was left to speak up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n