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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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What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.
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Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.
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Every day we have a choice. We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road sometimes based on a dream of a past that never was, fear of each other, distancing and blame, or we can take the much more difficult path, the road of transformation, transcendence, compassion, and love, but also accountability and justice.
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The time for change is now.
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I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people.
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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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I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.
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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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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 was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.
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