Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes - Page 3

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• I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.

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  Children, Believe, Government

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• It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

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  Thought Provoking, Together, World

  The TED Interview, www.ted.com. July, 2005.

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• We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?

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  Moon, People, Mosquitoes

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• When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.

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  Home, Ambition, People

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• What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.

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  Distance, People, Thought Provoking

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• I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Animal

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• So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.

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  Medicine, People, Broken

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• Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.

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  Feels

  "What Are You Doing When You Feel Most Beautiful?" by Jacqueline Novogratz, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2012.

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• There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

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  Top Down, Government, Support

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• People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

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  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

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  Opposites, Income, Poverty

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• I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

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  Adventure, Dark, Thinking

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• Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.

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  Writing, Opera, Philanthropy

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• I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

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  Blue, Sweaters, People

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• Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

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  Independence, Acumen, Kenya

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• For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

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  Order, Environmental, World

  "Q&A With Jacqueline Novogratz: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2013.

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• Dignity is more important than wealth.

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  Important, Dignity, Wealth

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• I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

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  Thought Provoking, World, African Continent

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• We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

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  Thought Provoking, Blind, Profit

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• There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

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  People, Thought Provoking, Low Income

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• When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

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  Opportunity, Broken, Thought Provoking

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• We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.

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  Children, Believe, Humility

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• Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.

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  Lying, Thought Provoking, Infinite

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• Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

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  Beautiful, Past, Thought Provoking

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• After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

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  Thought Provoking, Being Real, Atrocities

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