“Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.” YearsStillsWaitingRightsGenerationsAchieveEightAfrican AmericanCompensationRestitution Author:Cynthia McKinney
“Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.” TryingBelieveRealWisdomRealityTodayOpportunityPoliticsI BelievePresidentCommunityChallengesLeadershipDifferencesJusticeResponsibilityHistoryTechnologyViolenceGenerationsAchievePolicyConflictWeaponsSpringSolutionsEthicsProgramTestsStrategyUnityProfoundHuman RightsNuclearPeacefulIdeologyChiefsIranResolveForeign PolicyNuclear WeaponsDiplomacyCivilityCommandersComprehensiveSettlementObtainingCommander In ChiefArab Spring Author:Barack Obama
“In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.” IfsKnowsMenNeedsShouldYearsTwoDreamEarthBeautifulThreeFatherWaitingChangeGenerationsAchieveHundredGrandfatherAnticipate Author:Anton Chekhov
“For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.” MeanChildrenImportantEndsFactsNextOpportunitySocialEducationRolesGenerationsAchieveEqualSolutionsIdealsUniversalNotionCurrentsBrilliantInventionChiefsExplanationContradictionNext GenerationAbandonmentCorrectionsPublic EducationEqual OpportunityCompulsoryPostponement Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
“We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.” WorldStillsTechnologyGenerationsAchieveFlavorOld World Author:Dan Barber
“The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?” ImportantReligionHumanityMoralPrinciplesGenerationsAchieveCommandmentsConstructsMoral PrinciplesPinnacle Author:Sam Harris
“That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the next generation of girls dreaming of winning Wimbledon or becoming a scientist or going to the moon as an astronaut.” WorldDreamGirlNextWinningGenerationsAchieveSpecialBecomingMoonScientistSignalsNext GenerationAstronautWimbledon Author:Maria Sharapova
“Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.” IfsTryingMayLittlesHas BeensDoneCharacterAbleLosesGenerationsAchieveConditionsDemandPropertyDestroyedJudgementParadiseWorthwhileDiscouragedPurchasingSmallnessPurchasing PowerGood Judgement Author:Roger Babson
“But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.” IfsWorldRememberNatureTechnologyGenerationsAchieveSorrowGratitudeMiracleEnvironmentalPatrioticGlimpseFuture Generation Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“There are women & girls who are pushing the boundaries for what society deems as "normal." We need these pioneers to inspire future generations to dream big and strive to achieve those dreams.” NeedsDreamBigsGirlGenerationsAchieveInspireNormalStriveBoundariesPushingFuture GenerationPioneers Author:Joanna Lohman