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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The Power of “No”

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Washington, News, Politics, President, Wickenden, Wnyc, Barack, Obama, Lizza

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s victory in November was followed by protests across the country. The opposition will continue in Washington during the Inauguration and into the new Administration. Jelani Cobb joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss those grassroots efforts and what effect they could have on the Trump Administration, and on the legacy of Barack Obama.

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

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It's Thursday, December 29th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker.

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On March 31st, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

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And it may well be that we will have to repent in this generation,

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not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people,

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but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say,

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wait on time, somewhere we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the

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wheels of inevitability.

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It comes through the tireless efforts and the

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persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God. And without

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this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.

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So we must help time and realize that the time is always right to do right.

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