Burden Quotes - Page 28

• I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.

  Van Jones

  Native American, Thinking, Community

  Source: pen.org

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• I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists and a great nation from bigotry.

  Van Jones

  Thinking, Community, Bears

  Source: pen.org

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• Congress has become so dysfunctional that more and more of a burden is placed on the agencies to fill in the gaps. And the gaps get bigger and bigger because they're not constantly refreshed and tweaked.

  Barack Obama

  Agency, Gaps, Congress

  "NPR's Exit Interview With President Obama". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 19, 2016.

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• You cannot even start a small business under the tremendous regulatory burden we have today in America.

  Donald Trump

  America, Today, Small Business

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Membership in the European Community, now the European Union, has helped Ireland to take its place as a European country with all the member states, including Britain. It has therefore helped the maturing of a good bilateral relationship with Britain, lifting part of the burden of history.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Community, Unions

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able to cope with serious illness and not be driven into poverty and relationship breakdown because they don't have access to health care.

  Mary Robinson

  Should Have, Serious Illness, Care

  Source: www.who.int

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• If you look at the way Donald Trump has treated law enforcement, if you look at the way he's treated the military, this is a man who fully understands the burden of leadership and the responsibility he has as the commander in chief.

  Sebastian Gorka

  Military, Responsibility, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is in them, that they are supposed to be the ones setting the agenda - if people believe this, they get very energized. Yeah, it's annoying to have this extra burden of saving the country.

  Naomi Wolf

  Country, Believe, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and economically, as well as the overwhelming burden of sexual violence is disproportionately borne by women.

  Laura Bates

  Men, Impact, Majority

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• The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

  John Irving

  Ability, Feels, Isolated

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The fact that oppressive and corrupt regimes can borrow money in the name of the whole country means that the country's future generations will be weighed down by interest and repayment burdens, even if the money has been frittered away in some frivolous way, embezzled or used for weapons to suppress the country's population.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Mean, Names

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for the affluent roughly as they are while massively reducing the burdens presently imposed upon the poor. This sounds like magic. But it really works because the current system is not Pareto efficient. It's a system that generates hundreds of billions of dollars in litigation costs and deadweight losses that HIF-registered medicines would sidestep. By avoiding these losses, the HIF reform can bring improvements all around - including for pharmaceutical innovators.

  Thomas Pogge

  Loss, Thinking, Medicine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As you know Cuba has progressed a lot regarding all the indicators of social development and those rates can be compared favorably with the first world in several aspects. We think that without the heavy burden of the blockade that we can move forward a lot more in building prosperous and sustainable socialism to which we aspire.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Moving, Thinking, Development

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Troops, Advisors

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Our troops in Iraq and Afganistan] does give us the ability to make sure that we are strengthening those folk who are interested in building up their countries rather than destroying them, and doing so in a way that is sustainable and doesn't put a constant burden on the amazing men and women that we've got in uniform.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Men, Building Up

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Children, Psychics, Healthy

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• We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are women. A lot of them are living alone, with no one to care for them, or they're shunted into institutions. I would like to see a sensible aging policy more like what the Nordic countries have. They're cutting back those programs, but there you can still have in-home nursing care. You don't have to rely on your children. I personally don't want to be a burden on my daughter.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Country, Daughter, Children

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I had a period in my life, maybe a decade or so, in which I was involved in that kind of thing, associating with the elite of various segments of society. It always made me extremely uncomfortable. I couldn't wait to get out of there and change my clothes. The good part about that was getting home and changing into my regular clothes. Taking off the suit and the tie, taking off the tight shoes, and just relaxing. Being away from that stuff. It was stimulating, but I never liked it. I always felt it was a terrible, terrible burden.

  Mark Helprin

  Home, Shoes, Clothes

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen (with the occasional drone strike in Pakistan). In addition, the United States is pledged to defend 28 countries in NATO. It is unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Military, Fighting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Historical, Legacy, Should

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This is not just true of the innumerable unread books in the socialist realist tradition, but also of novels that carry the burden of conservative ideologies, like Guerrillas, Naipaul's worst book, where the author's disgust for a certain kind of black activist and white liberal is overpowering.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Book, Thinking, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think the Ronald Reagan tax reform proposals are a step toward distributive justice. They redistribute the tax burden more equitably and more progressively among individuals and call upon business to carry a somewhat larger proportion of the total tax load. Both of these are steps toward equity and distributive justice.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Thinking, Justice, Proposal

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• There's this talk that we're asking soldiers to make the greatest sacrifice, but the reality is that civilians bear the burden of war more than the combatants. You're much more likely to get accidentally blown up or killed by a death squad than you are to die in a firefight.

  Michael Hastings

  War, Sacrifice, Reality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The ultimate goal for me in prayer is to draw near to God...to fall in step with him...to discern his will so that my life might be lived accordingly...to discover what burdens are on his heart that I might take them into my own heart, then pray them back to him.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Prayer, Fall, Heart

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks 32nd in total tax burden.

  T.R. Reid

  Country, Democracy, Easy

  "Now Is the Perfect Time to Think About Taxes - T.R. Reid on A Fine Mess'". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 18, 2017.

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