Quotes from Jacqueline Novogratz

Changing the world is not easy.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

The Pakistanis are very resilient people.

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

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.

When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

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.

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.