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Welcome to the Daily Stoke Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient

wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some

of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoke.com.

You have the power. To the Stoics, the most important virtue was courage. A Stoic never

willingly gives up the power, the belief in themselves, to change their condition and

to resist the control of others. That's what Thrasia and Agrippinus clung to as they

fought against Nero. That's what George Washington did when he broke away from the king. That's

what Stockdale did in the Hanway, Hilton. That's what we so judge, Seneca, for failing to do.

In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare's most overtly Stoic play, he puts it thusly. So every bond man

in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity. What was Brutus doing in that

play? He was refusing to live under Caesar's tyranny. He and his fellow conspirators were

taking quite literally matters into their own hands. Not all resistance is so violent,

of course. M.Align, Pancers, talked about withdrawing your consent to be governed. That's

what women did in Britain. In some cases refused even to eat until they were given the rights

they deserved. Martin Luther King talked about the power of a people who decide to straighten

their backs and decide they will no longer be ridden. His boycotts and passive resistance

canceled the captivity of African Americans. It was an active revocation of any consent

towards segregation or the deprivation of constitutional rights. Each individual citizen,

even in a tyranny, holds incredible power. As individuals, we have agency over our own

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