A Quote by Jessica Jackley

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Jessica Jackley

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Jessica Jackley
American - Businesswoman
Born: 1977

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

Sherrod Brown

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

Pierre Omidyar

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

Ban Ki-moon

Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future.

Eric Schneiderman

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Michael Franti

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Nicholas Johnson

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

Maya Angelou

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

Peter Blair Henry

As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities.

Koichiro Matsuura

If you don't have the love and support of your family, you need to find someone out there who you can confide in and share your concerns and worries with. And someone who can lift your spirits and make you feel valuable and strong and powerful.

Jazz Jennings

The Internet is empowering everybody. It's empowering Democrats. It's empowering dictators. It's empowering criminals. It's empowering people who are doing really wonderful and creative things.

Rebecca MacKinnon

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

John H. McWhorter

The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

Van Jones

Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.

Arancha Gonzalez

I've just always felt it's an incredibly empowering thing, particularly for young women, to capitalize on their coordination and their strength. It's a very empowering thing to feel strong in your body.

Alanis Morissette

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

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