Download White Man's Burden Poem Pictures. To take up the burden of empire, as had britain and other european nations. 43nor call too loud on freedom.
Debate raged in american political circles over imperialism, highlighted by the terms of the treaty of paris that would give the u.s.
The white man's burden is a poem written by rudyard kipling. The capitalization—the white man—even seems to imply that all white peoples belong to a single group all bound to a similar duty. I'm not exactly sure which side kipling is on in terms of the issue he addresses, but i cannot say i a poem about the duty every white man has to stay strong in his responsibility to lift up the lower races of the world while they slander him for it. Reading the white man's burden brought back those feelings.