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.
Jacqueline NovogratzRead
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
Interpretation
Traditional charity isn't sufficient to eliminate poverty's root causes.
Jacqueline Novogratz highlights the limitations of conventional charity and aid in addressing poverty, suggesting that these approaches often fail to tackle the underlying systemic issues that perpetuate poverty. Instead, she advocates for more sustainable and transformative solutions that empower individuals and communities, rather than merely providing temporary relief.
In practice
This quote can be used at a fundraising event focusing on sustainable development.
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.
When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.
I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?
The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.
Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide resting places for them, where they can coal and repair, would be one of the first duties of a government proposing to itself the development of the power of the nation at sea.
War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
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