Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I do feel kind of like I have a split identity in that there's Van Jones, who has this big public role… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I am 100 percent on the side of insisting that white people step up to a different level of consciousness and commitment… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Now I think liberals have gone from underreacting to Trump and saying that Trump is just a clown and a buffoon, and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is discovering an idea that moves you, and then letting people who are moved by that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others -… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The problem that we have in America now is, some people only see the positive stuff and wave off the toxic stuff,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Trump is much, much worse than people understand. A lot of his supporters are actually much, much better than people know. Most… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
People in red states and blue states can agree that clean air is better than dirty air; therefore we should use clean… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff, the misogyny, the outright bigotry and so now people are left… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
People forget: solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Businesses don't retrofit themselves to waste less energy and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
It's a tremendous challenge now: to make sure the green economy is big enough that there is enough labor demand that people… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I'm an environmentalist, and I don't want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don't want to have… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack]… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We're now moving into a stage where the green economy isn't just going to be the place for people to spend money.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In the U.S., African- Americans, no matter what we do - when we sit in, when we freedom ride, when we kneel… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The laws of spiritual physics will not allow you to lead somebody that you don't love, that you don't care about, that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Now, we can live in this little, liberal bubble bath where everybody's supposed to like everybody and do all this stuff and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers. — Van Jones Copy Share
If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very… — Van Jones Copy Share
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… — Van Jones Copy Share
I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who… — Van Jones Copy Share
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. — Van Jones Copy Share
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. — Van Jones Copy Share
[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… — Van Jones Copy Share
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… — Van Jones Copy Share
Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there. — Van Jones Copy Share
Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out. — Van Jones Copy Share
We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon. — Van Jones Copy Share
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… — Van Jones Copy Share
I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector. — Van Jones Copy Share
I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last century. It… — Van Jones Copy Share
I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life. — Van Jones Copy Share
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