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Professor Jennifer Baker on Understanding Modern Stoicism

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Theory and Practice Come First

"We sometimes, we do the civil rights movement a disservice by not acknowledging that the very human impulse when someone punches you in the head or calls you a racial slur is to respond with violence," he says. "This is the opposite of what you're instinctually going to do." He adds: "They were like an athlete who had practiced for this moment ... They weren't just winning it out there".

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