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The time for change is now.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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Jacqueline Novogratz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 15
Banker
Businessperson
Consultant
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the United States of America
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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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Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.
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When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
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People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live
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I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.
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Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
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My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you with a big smile, they give you what they have, and they keep coming back. They are the fighters.
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I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
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My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.
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A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.
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Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.
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Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.
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Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.
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I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
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Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.
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You should focus on being more interested than interesting.
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Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.
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As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.
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May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.
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Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.
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