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Laziness and shiftlessness, these, and above all, vice and criminality of every kind, are evils more potent for harm to the black race than all acts of oppression of white men put together.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “Laziness and shiftlessness, these, and above all, vice and criminality of every kind, are evils more potent for harm to…”
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Roosevelt argues that personal failings within the black community can be more damaging than external oppression.
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