Century Quotes by Van Jones

9 Century quotes by Van Jones

Van Jones offers nine brief reflections on the century. The concise collection provides a quick, activist’s view of social and environmental issues.

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I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century,…

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Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new…

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America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and…

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I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

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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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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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That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's…

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

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

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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 it's very…

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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…

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

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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.

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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.

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[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…

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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…

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

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

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

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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, and that's…

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

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

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