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

Jacqueline Novogratz

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Jacqueline Novogratz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 15
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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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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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All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
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Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.
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I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.
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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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What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?
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Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.
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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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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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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 was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.
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You should focus on being more interested than interesting.
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I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.
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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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Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.
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Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
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We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.
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When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.
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