Top 31 White Man's Burden Quotes
#1. ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
Ambrose Bierce
#2. Ah! the learning! And the fun of it? or is it the white man's burden to know more?
Aporva Kala
#3. Take up the White Man's burden
send forth the best ye breed
go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
Rudyard Kipling
#4. This is the white man's burden, the noblesse oblige of the missionary, colonist and development professional, who feel a duty to shepherd those unfortunate enough to be trapped in unenlightenment.
Alex Perry
#5. The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.
Leo Tolstoy
#6. 'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular.
Godfrey Gao
#7. It wasn't belief in God, but belief in tradition, heritage and continuity that motivated me. Within my lifetime, six million Jews had died because of their religion and I too had been destined for death. It was a sacred trust to carry the flame forward to the next generation.
Diane Armstrong
#8. I write to withdraw as a nominee to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States ... I am concerned that the confirmation process presents a burden for the White House and our staff that is not in the best interest of the country.
Harriet Miers
#9. detours in the road. Because without them, this life
Sarah Jio
#10. All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.
Ellen G. White
#11. But his heart had been made as a match for Elaine's, and now it was unable to bear the burden which hers had been forced to lay down.
T.H. White
#12. It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.
David Halberstam
#13. Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#14. Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
Faye Wattleton
#15. There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
#16. You are still on your own; be stoic; don't panic; get through this hell to the generous sweet overflowing GIVING love of spring ... dawn came, black and white gray into a frozen hell.
I lived: that once. And must shoulder the bundle, the burden of my dead selves until I, again, live.
Sylvia Plath
#17. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#18. God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
Reggie White
#19. Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.
John Milton
#20. The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.
Robert Jensen
#21. I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.
Shaun White
#22. There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.
Clarence John Laughlin
#23. It was damn hard to trust a boy with a smile like that.
Alwyn Hamilton
#24. The seal and the constitution, reflects the thinking of the founding fathers that this was to be a nation by white people, and for white people. Native Americans, Blacks, and all other non-white people, were to be the burden bearers for the real citizens of this nation.
Louis Farrakhan
#25. Didn't I warn you-Huh-Didn't I tell you one of em was going to win!?? So now, what do we do?
Jack Norris
#26. It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.
Ellen G. White
#28. Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.
Ilona Andrews
#29. I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.
Sayed Kashua
#30. Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we
the white race
have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.
Gore Vidal
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