The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Jacqueline Novogratz
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?”
“You should focus on being more interested than interesting.”
“They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I took mine and fell flat on my face. 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... I concluded that if I could only nudge the world a little bit, maybe that would be enough. But nudging isn't enough.”
“Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity”
“How you see where you are always depends on where you've been.”
“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.”
“If we have learned anything, it is the horror that can happen when people don't think for themselves, but instead follow authority blindly.”
“I've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most important quality we must all strengthen in ourselves is that of a deep human empathy, for that will provide the most hope of all--and the foundation for our collective survival.”
“As is so often the case, the supposedly insignificant understood the psychology of the strong, while the strong didn't have a clue about the other.”
“Though either choice was good, one was truer to myself... Ultimately, I reflected on Geothe's invocation to 'make a commitment and the forces of the universe will conspire to make it happen' and chose the uncharted path.”
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Book Keywords:
humanity, social-change, society, advocacy, strengthening-relationships, poverty, passion, life, insecurity, interconnectedness, international-development, charity, freedom, introspection
