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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?

Jacqueline Novogratz

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Jacqueline Novogratz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 15
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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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There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.
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Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.
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Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
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Dignity is more important than wealth.
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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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Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
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Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.
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If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.
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Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.
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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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Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.
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I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.
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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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In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national lines, yet at the same time, less comfortable with low-income people who share their nationality. How we create those bonds of community that are truly global as well as national is one of our generation's great challenges.
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I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.
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Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.
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I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.
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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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