When you look at many of our peers—when you look at Brother Dyson, Sister Melissa, and Sharpton and others to my way of thinking it is very clear that they have sold out for fame, attention, money. This is not critical work. They pander to
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“Crime and Punishment was a response to the ideas of another radical thinker, Dimitry Pisarev, who drew a sharp distinction between the slumbering masses and those superior individuals like Raskolnikov who believed they had a moral right to commit crimes in the interest of humanity. In the end, however, Raskolnikov discovers that his true motive was to test (unsuccessfully) whether he could overcome his Christian conscience to achieve such a goal.”
― Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
― Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time
“Nietzsche’s view of Christian love as a form of resentment and revenge of the powerless and impotent toward the powerful and the strong led King briefly to “despair of the power of love in solving social problems.”
― The Radical King
― The Radical King
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