I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat.
John Lewis
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
W. Somerset Maugham
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To me, the burden of proof isn't on people looking for ways to improve our schools; it's on people who want to keep things the same. Our current system isn't working, and too many kids are being left behind.
Michael Bennet
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If, for people, Instagram is just entertainment, for me, it's an additional burden.
Ramzan Kadyrov
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By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.
Spencer Bachus
HomeBorderBackBurdenWillMexico
Respect the burden.
Napoleon Bonaparte
RespectBurden
Thousands of our post-9/11 veterans carry the invisible burden of post-traumatic stress, and there is an overwhelming need to expand the available treatment options.
Ron DeSantis
StressBurdenVeteransNeedCarry
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac Asimov
StarsFutureHumanityLostBurden
Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.
Mike Simpson
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Because the traditional mode of dress for Muslim women is so distinct - the headcovering, which is not there for guys - women carry a greater burden of representation than Muslim men do in non-Muslim societies.
G. Willow Wilson
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The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'
Mitch Daniels
LifeMeBackBurdenWhyProve
America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
Barbara Mikulski
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Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
BitternessBurdenYearsCarrySome
The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.
Dick Morris
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell Bovee
GreatBurdenBearLastPleasures
We should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecutions.
Brett Kavanaugh
SuitsBurdenSittingPresidentCivil
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
Bob Dylan
BurdenBeingDisappearGotBecause
The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest.
Wole Soyinka
JusticeRestBurdenLivingNever
Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.
Susan Collins
FamilyHealthInsuranceBurdenHeavy
There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers.
Shigeru Yoshida
FearBurdenPayWithoutJapanEver
Dodd-Frank is a direct cause of the economic struggles millions of Americans continue to face today. The law provides so much regulation that it is a burden on the economy.
Scott Garrett
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The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
BurdenNothingHavingDreadful
If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes and spending upon the productive activities of the private sector.
Murray Rothbard
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It is our responsibility, but not burden, to be champions.
Lin Dan
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