Misfortune.
Misfortune can be defined as bad luck. Their team has been having bad luck. They've seemed to get used to their misfortune. (bad luck)
Answer:
Simply change the period after the word 'confidence' to a comma instead.
And at the end... place the period INSIDE the quotation marks.
Explanation:
He was addressing all Africans
I believe it's Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allen Poe and Mary Shelley