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Van Jones describes a growing network called the Love Army that backs underdogs in red and blue states. He urges us to stop spending billions on prisons and to train people for green‑collar jobs through schools and community colleges. He also says that when spiritual people act and active people become spiritual, hope for humanity grows.

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Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart.

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I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.

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Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.

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To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and…

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We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.

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It's become fashionable to put down people who we then expect to vote for us.

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Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.

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It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

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People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting…

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I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists,…

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Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to…

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People care. Their hearts are open, but people don't know exactly what the Dreamers are going through, or what sanctuary cities are…

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We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to…

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There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They're nowhere near a majority. They're…

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The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just…

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There's a level of self-hatred in giving these people too much power. They're sorry. They're corny. They're hateful. They need some help.…

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Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than…

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Hillary Clinton did try to reach out to the Sanders voters with policy concessions, but Sanders voters, especially his most activist core,…

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To make sure we aren't training people for jobs that don't exist, the government should provide companies with loans or loan guarantees.…

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The progressives have a challenge. Part of it is that you now have a lot of progressives who feel that 50 million,…

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Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Here's an issue where his concern is this line with public opinion,…

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The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We…

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Steve Bannon is clearly somebody who has studied not-normal politics and the Constitution and the Electoral College. He is somebody who has…

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All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work,…

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To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to…

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There seems to be a passive alliance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and that's unprecedented in its form and dangerous in…

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If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.

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In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a…

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I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

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In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.

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Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water…

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In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming…

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I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who…

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People are going to have to do a big reset. But this is a big wake-up call to the entire establishment, including…

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People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how…

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A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled…

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If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right…

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I think there's going to be a tug of war in this country over who are the real patriots because at a…

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The reality is if you take any three people and look at their cellphones or blackberries and facebook pages, you can get…

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We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can…

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Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very…

America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration…

I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who…

Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.

[Donald Trump] is a horrible human being, but he ain't worse than Bull Connor. Fannie Lou loved Bull Connor and beat Bull Connor because…

The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that…

Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.

Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.

We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon.

All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's…

I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.

I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last century. It…

I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.