Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.
If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
It doesn't matter whether you can or cannot achieve high temperature superconductivity or fuel cells, they will always be on the list because if you could achieve them they would be extremely valuable.
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding?
We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.
What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.
I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so.
You can achieve only that which you will do.
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
I feel I have to play a role to help Jacksonville achieve big things, to achieve its potential. There is opportunity here, and sometimes it isn't always evident, but it's there.
If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.
I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.
Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.
I read an article in 'Forbes' entitled 'Six Ways To Achieve Any Goal,' and it really inspired me and helped me get to where I am today.
Anita Roddick was amazing. Her presence in a room was full of light, and everything she worked to achieve still resonates now.
I only have an awareness of what I'm trying to achieve as an actor and what my job as the character is to service.
I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.
For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.
As we continue advancing and leveraging GIS and as we keep bringing in new generations of technology as well as new generations of people, my sense is we're going to achieve extraordinary things.
It's good to get good marks, but some students take it on their heart when they score less in future. But the average student, on the contrary, keeps on trying to do something or the other to achieve his goals.
I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements.
I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.
It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.
