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And he would say, 'Potter, Toby, you're such a fine sentient being.' 'īy multiple accounts, that kindness toward sentient beings included people. And he would pet them sort of by gently touching the very top of their heads. He would take Benadryl or whatever to be around them. So Tommy 'had a special relationship with them. 'We are a very big dog family,' Jamie Raskin says. His love for animals was perhaps most challenging at home though: Tommy was allergic to dogs and cats. Trauma is still trauma for the creatures that crawl.'Īnimal Outlook, where Tommy interned, called him a 'dynamic force for good in this world, driven to expose, challenge and uproot all forms of injustice, including the suffering forced upon animals.' He worked as a summer associate at Mercy for Animals, which wrote that his 'kindness, passion, & empathy inspires our continued advocacy & remains in our hearts.' How smart you are friends shouldn't matter at all Of aggression, oppression, from tyrannous might,

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'When it comes to the right to live free from the blight 'It wasn't his mind that marked him as so extraordinary,' Jamie Raskin says. Jamie Raskin and son Tommy Raskin in an undated photo. Speaking at DC VegFest in 2017, he recited his lengthy poem ' Where War Begins.' An excerpt: Tommy wrote at length about philosophy and animal rights he thought about how human lives should be measured against those of animals and animal suffering. Nobody in our family was a vegetarian, and now everybody is.' 'I mean, Tommy, he felt all of the pain and the suffering in the world, which is how, of course, he found his way quickly to vegetarianism. 'We've been hearing stories like this ever since it happened,' Raskin tells Weekend Edition. Tributes to Tommy have poured in over the past few days.Ī neighbor wrote to the Raskin family about a time when Tommy organized a group dinner in high school so a classmate of his who didn't have a date to the prom wasn't left out. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Takoma Park, represents Maryland's 8th Congressional District in Congress.

The stories of his love and compassion are absolutely astounding.' But it wasn't his mind that marked him as so extraordinary. 'He had a photographic memory and, like some other kids in our family, knew all the presidents and vice presidents in order.

'Tommy was remarkable from the beginning,' Jamie Raskin tells NPR's Scott Simon. Tommy, as his father Jamie Raskin calls him, was also tormented by depression. By the age of 25, Thomas Bloom Raskin had already accomplished a great deal: He was a graduate of Amherst College who went on to intern at the Cato Institute and J Street, among other prominent organizations a passionate vegan who wrote philosophical defenses of animal rights and converted those around him to giving up meat a political writer who had essays published in The Nation and elsewhere and a law student and teaching assistant at Harvard Law School who donated from his teaching salary to charities in his students' names.

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