Erickson would think that, since he has a vested interest in change, but not revolution. Many radicals, black and white, and many female rebels seem to be following in Luther's steps. I know that my human potential will never be reached. I know that I am not only damaged, but studded both physically and intellectually. Both poverty and my situation as a female and as an American have contributed to this 'retardation'.
Women have that kind of stoicism, as do poor people.
They have to be stoical to bear reality at all. Even if I were accepted by my fellow scholars, which happens only to the most extremely well-educated women, I still would not have the kind of training necessary to be a really good scholar. Again a combination of being poor and being female conspired to prevent my receiving the kind of superior education reserved only for the wealthy, and the few males they choose to take out of the lower class. For me to 'make up' for lost time would be to make a machine out of my brain, and by the time I might be prepared, I should have destroyed my creativity like so many scholars who have 'made' it. Even the rather mediocre and the females somehow gain a zest for life based upon their constant exposure or access to all that is beautiful and fine and tasty and splendid in Western Civilization and other cultures as well through travel.