You Have to Fight

"Maybe you don’t have to worry about being pulled over for little reason. Maybe you don’t have to worry about not getting the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you’ve never been in trouble. Maybe you know how to de-escalate tense situations, maybe you can afford a good lawyer. Maybe you’ve never been in the wrong place at the wrong time."So why is racial justice still a you problem? Ryan explains in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better. Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanholidayInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanholiday/Facebook: http://facebook.com/ryanholidayYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 📢 Share | ⚙️ Manage Subscription

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• 0:06Speaker 00

  Welcome to The Daily Stoic, where each day we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living the good life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoic.com.

• 0:29Ryan Holiday?

  You have to fight. Maybe you don't have to worry about being pulled over for little reason. Maybe you don't have to worry about not getting the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you've never been in trouble. Maybe you know how to de-escalate tense situations. Maybe you can afford a good lawyer. Maybe you've never been in the wrong place in the wrong time. Maybe all of that is true, and let us hope that it is. Let us not mistake this for thinking the issues of law enforcement, police brutality, or racial injustice are not your problem, because they are. Cato was rich. Cato was respected. Cato could have rolled over and let Caesar usurp the laws of the Republic. He could have retired to his books and his philosophy and waited the whole thing out. Cato could have fled

• 1:14Ryan Holiday?

  Rome after Caesar won. He could have appeased and compromised, cared only whether he and his family were safe, but that's not what he did. Cato fought. Cato insisted on justice. He insisted on liberty. He insisted on fighting to protect what was worth protecting, not just for himself, but for generations to come. In fact, he chose to die rather than live in a world where he couldn't do that anymore. Courage, justice, temperance, wisdom, these are not idle words. These are not theoretical concepts removed from our day-to-day reality. No, they are standards we have to live by. These are the ideals we have to fight for, that we have to insist are fairly offered

• 1:58Ryan Holiday?

  to all, particularly justice, and particularly to the vulnerable. This is your problem. It's everyone's problem.

• 2:08Speaker 00

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