{"id":94171,"date":"2016-07-03T18:41:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/03\/we-must-always-take-sides-neutrality-helps-the\/"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:41:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:41:53","slug":"we-must-always-take-sides-neutrality-helps-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/03\/we-must-always-take-sides-neutrality-helps-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>After 87 courageous years on this earth, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate\u00a0<b>Elie Wiesel<\/b> (September 30, 1928\u2013July 2, 2016)\u00a0has left us \u2014\u00a0and left us his timeless, increasingly timely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/12\/10\/elie-wiesel-nobel-prize-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">wisdom on our shared responsibility in ending injustice<\/a>.<br \/> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/explore.brainpickings.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. After 87 courageous years on this earth, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate\u00a0Elie Wiesel (September 30, 1928\u2013July 2, 2016)\u00a0has left us \u2014\u00a0and left us his timeless, increasingly timely wisdom on our shared responsibility in ending &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/03\/we-must-always-take-sides-neutrality-helps-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11841,560,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}