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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.

It's Thursday, November 19th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

Nonviolent resistance is the most powerful weapon that oppressed people can use in breaking a loop

from the bondage of oppression.

Now, the other method that one might use is that of resignation or acquiescence.

But I think that is just as bad as violence, because non-cooperation with evil

is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with doing.

The history of nonviolent protest in America stretches back to Native American communities

before the nation was founded. In the 19th century, abolitionists and suffragists faced down

mobs as they argued for freedom and equal rights.

In the 20th century, civil rights protesters organized bus boycotts,

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