Former President Barack Obama called on universities and law firms to stand up to intimidation from President Donald Trump's administration and urged Americans to prepare to "possibly sacrifice" in support of ongoing threats to America's democratic values.
In a speech Thursday night at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, Obama also accused Trump's government of working to destroy the international order created after World War II.
Obama painted a picture of a postwar political environment in which disagreements happened within a shared respect for certain rules and norms, such as free speech and an independent judiciary, which he said was now eroding. "It is up to all of us to fix this," he said, including "the citizen, the ordinary person who says, no, that's not right."
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