"achieve dignity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to gain or attain dignity or respect. Example: Through hard work and perseverance, she was able to achieve dignity in the eyes of her community, despite facing many challenges and obstacles.
They're not asking for charitable contributions to achieve dignity in old age or selling hip replacements or corneal transplants.
Italian-Americans, including my own family, left the Village to achieve dignity according to terms set by the society that disparaged them.
He joined the Goodwill board in 1962 and was an active champion of Goodwill's mission -to help people achieve dignity through the power of work.
The combination enabled thousands of once-poor District residents to achieve dignity and middle-class status and helped build a solid black middle class.
We should take them for what they are; experience whatever healing and sanctifying work they can do; and carry on with the business of creating forms of penal justice that transcend revenge and retribution to achieve dignity.
As we speak, American diplomacy is supporting Israelis and Palestinians as they engage in difficult but necessary talks to end the conflict there; to achieve dignity and an independent state for Palestinians, and lasting peace and security for the State of Israel – a Jewish state that knows America will always be at their side.
After so much suffering in the hands of medical staff who wanted to prevent her from dying, she had achieved dignity.
So long as Israelis demonstrating for peace are attacked by mobs, claiming to share our tradition, but chanting "death to Arabs, death to leftists" we have not achieved dignity.
Ironically, it was the economic rise of Egypt and Tunisia in recent years that has largely fueled the discontent in the streets, for suddenly, as in India, the poorest people see a glimmer of hope for achieving dignity and economic progress.
What emerges is an affecting portrait of Mr. Sheng's need for love, coupled with the narrator's own struggle to achieve both dignity and gainful employment.
In this way, development becomes a truly global endeavour, not by the "developed" for the "developing", but by all, for all, to achieve the dignity of all.
