Van Jones

If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to…

— Van Jones

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

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After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing…

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I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a…

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There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right…

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Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

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I'm saying you should have the right not only to be an energy consumer but an energy producer. Follow the money to…

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Trump is holding together the shakiest coalition that you could conceivably govern on. It is a conservative, populist alliance that agrees with…

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Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a…

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The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out…

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I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were…

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We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin…

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The Trump phenomenon has a lot of really good stuff in it, the anti-elitism, the concern for America's economy in the Rust…

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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…

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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we…

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If I didn't have that deep grounding, it would be very easy for me to just be someone who is consumed with…

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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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A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of…

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We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country…

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[I wish no one ever asked me ] "Did you sign that petition implicating the Bush Administration in 9/11?" Because I never…

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I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a…

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

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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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For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle…

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To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority…

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The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and…

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We thought Donald Trump was leaving that world of entertainment and climbing over the wall into politics. In fact, what he did…

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We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative…

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

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In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization...…

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Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.

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It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school…

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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…

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All the old rules - if you say some crazy stuff you get your show canceled or you get your campaign ended…

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Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others -…

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Basically, we all just had to live in the Trump reality television show, and now we're kind of stuck there for at…

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The problem that we have in America now is, some people only see the positive stuff and wave off the toxic stuff,…

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Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

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If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities…

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Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.

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