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
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.
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What this quote means
To eradicate poverty, sustainable systems must be created that provide essential goods and services to those in need.
Jacqueline Novogratz emphasizes that the resolution of poverty lies in the development of robust systems that are capable of delivering affordable and essential resources to impoverished communities. The notion that these systems must be financially sustainable and scalable is vital; it implies that long-term solutions must be self-sufficient and widely applicable in order to genuinely make poverty a relic of the past.
Themes
PovertySustainabilityAffordabilitySystemsChange
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech advocating for social reform, a leader could quote Novogratz to emphasize the importance of building sustainable solutions to combat poverty.
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