Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things should be done and who promises the impossible gains a ready audience, while one who soberly recites a record of actual accomplishment is quickly brushed aside. Many men who pick up their morning papers and fail to find accounts of terrible accidents, atrocious crimes, financial failures, or scandalous wrong-doing, throw them aside in regret that there is no news. They find no satisfaction in the realization that the world and society are functioning normally. It is the duty of trained minds to reflect. These who have had the opportunity to study history should have a true perspective...
...this day the Negro's faith in the righteous purpose of the Federal Government has sagged. Some have laid the blame on the parties in power, and some have laid it elsewhere, but all the colored people in every section of the United States believe that there is something wrong, and not accidentally wrong, at the very heart of the government...
...light in forming one's own standard; to avoid narrow, partial and prejudiced opinions; to ensure so far as possible that one sees clearly and fully all the considerations on which his opinions ought to be based. But when he has reached his opinion of what is right and wrong; when he has framed his standard of moral conduct; a man must act upon it without flinching. Let every man be firmly persuaded in his own mind, and happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth; for if he swerve from what he believes...
...that man she met at the last "Brattle" or the busy tradesman seeking the address of the man who has owed him $23.13 since last February will meet with more success that in former years, if a somewhat superficial examination of the class list does not give a wrong impression. This most difficult and least spectacular part of the work of publication seems to have been done with unusual thoroughness and accuracy, much to the credit of the committee...
...unwise. It is first cousin to all kill-joys and gloom. It is forever stepping up and saying "No!" and tends to associate a sense of guilt with all innocent amusement. It fights against idleness as against one of the cardinal sins. It considers all rest as probably wrong and seeks to drive its victims to incessant mental activity...