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Dignity is more important than wealth.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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Jacqueline Novogratz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 15
Banker
Businessperson
Consultant
Entrepreneur
Financial Analyst
the United States of America
Dignity
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If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.
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Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.
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A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.
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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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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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All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
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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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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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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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Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of 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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