Jessica Jackley Quotes

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

It’s what you have to do to find a way to kick poverty’s ass.

Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?

Microwork gives marginalized people a chance to earn a living by playing a vital role in the business processes of big companies. In parallel, the organization assists local entrepreneurs in running microwork centers, helping to grow a new pool of business talent across the developing world.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.

If you do something that's going to get somebody a job, then they'll be able to pay for their kid's school, and then their kid is going to be a doctor, and then that doctor is going to probably help who knows how many other people, so it's very motivating. Much more fun than going to the beach.

Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race, economic independence.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

If a woman is financially independent, she can definitely make a bigger contribution in making big decisions and contribute much more. If a woman is financially independent, she can pursue her interests, too.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you're talking about addressing the foundation of what's going on with our people when we don't have any financial power. Our basic needs aren't being met in a lot of cases, so there's no way we're going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.

Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.

If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.

Growing up, I dreamt of being economically independent because I always believed women should be so.

I want all Latinos to know the American dream is alive. I believe in economic liberty. I believe there's no demographic more suited to achieving the American dream than Latinos.

I've always been the one who struggled financially, so now it's so cool that I can make my own money and do whatever I want with it.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.