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To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
-- Mary Church Terrell, (Sep 23 1863-1954), US social reformer; She worked to improve women's rights and equality for blacks; first president of National Association of Colored Women, 1896-1904.

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