Quotes About Opportunity

Equality in America has never meant literal equality of condition or capacity. There will always be inequalities in character and ability in any society. Equality has meant rather that in the words of the Declaration of Independence, All men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. It is meant that in a democratic society there should be no inequalities in opportunities or in freedoms.

I mean, they are just as susceptible to pressure and in many ways more susceptible to pressure because they are desperately anxious, this is their tremendous chance to break through the rather narrow lives they may lead.

In my opinion a lot of people who may seem happy now would do what I did or similar things if they had the money and the time. I

Dac? pe drumul pe care îl urmezi de mult? vreme, o maÈ™in? se opreÈ™te s? te ia, asta nu poate schimba decât ora sosirii, nu poate explica È™i motivul pentru care ai apucat-o în direcÈ›ia aceea.

I understand that not everyone is so lucky; a precious few have it easier, but most have it harder. I might once have said that you make that kind of luck for yourself, and in some ways you do, but it's just as often true that people end up where they are through no fault of their own and are then faced with making the best of it.

When the student is ready the teacher appears. When the question is asked then the answer is heard. When we are truly ready to receive then what we need will become available.

Poverty is a great equalizer

The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.

suppose that in America everything, including education and corrections, is fair game for profiteers.

It takes just one, he says over and over. You hear that all the time in this business. One big case, and you can retire. That's one reason lawyers do so many sleazy things, like full-color ads in the yellow pages, and billboards, and placards on city buses, and telephone solicitation. You hold your nose, ignore the stench of what you're doing, ignore the snubs and snobbery of big-firm lawyers, because it takes only one.

In Ake v. Oklahoma, the Court said: "When a State brings its judicial power to bear on an indigent defendant in a criminal proceeding, it must take steps to assure that the defendant has a fair opportunity to present his defense…. Justice cannot be equal where, simply as a result of his poverty, a defendant is denied the opportunity to participate meaningfully in a judicial proceeding in which his liberty is at stake.

Justice cannot be equal where, simply as a result of his poverty, a defendant is denied the opportunity to participate meaningfully in a judicial proceeding in which his liberty is at stake.

We like to say that skin color doesn't matter, but that's not always true. We often use it to open doors.

Why can't a man have more than one life? Where was it written that you couldn't start over? And over?

Samantha closed her eyes for a few seconds and tried to put it all in perspective. Yesterday morning she had arrived at her desk in the world's largest law firm, one that paid her handsomely and had the promise of a long, profitable career. Now, about thirty hours later, she was unemployed, sitting in the café at Kramerbooks and trying to hustle her way into a temporary, unpaid gig about as deep in the boonies as one could possibly wander.

regardless of their LSAT scores

With nothing to lose, David decided to roll the dice and

Everybody wanted a better life away from the streets and drugs and violence and hopelessness.

He'd finished college with $60,000 in loans, and no job.

Yet by some stroke of almost providential good fortune, he became wanted.

Marley fez-me pensar no carácter efémero da vida, nas suas alegrias passageiras e oportunidades perdidas. Fez-me lembrar que só temos uma chance de chegar ao ouro, sem repetições.

Their timing was perfect, because the regent was seriously ill.

it began to sink in that whoever married her was likely to become king and could make or break their careers.

Mary deplored the lost opportunity. Two women rulers, working together for the benefit of the British Isles