Ryan Holiday Quote
Booker T. Washington tells an anecdote told to him by Frederick Douglass, about a time he was traveling and was asked to move and ride in the baggage car because of his race. A white supporter rushed up to apologize for this horrible offense. I am sorry, Mr. Douglass, that you have been degraded in this manner, the person said. Douglass would have none of that. He wasn’t angry. He wasn’t hurt. He replied with great fervor: They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me.
Ryan Holiday
Booker T. Washington tells an anecdote told to him by Frederick Douglass, about a time he was traveling and was asked to move and ride in the baggage car because of his race. A white supporter rushed up to apologize for this horrible offense. I am sorry, Mr. Douglass, that you have been degraded in this manner, the person said. Douglass would have none of that. He wasn’t angry. He wasn’t hurt. He replied with great fervor: They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me.
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