I've learned that generosity is far easier than justice and that, in the highly distorted markets of the poor, it is all too easy to veer only toward the charitable, to have low--or no--expectations for low-income people. This does nothing but reaffirm prejudices on all sides.

Jacqueline Novogratz
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  3. I can say I didn't win, but I can't say that I didn't try.
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