God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I'm not going to let Donald Trump take away from our community, something that Fannie Lou Hamer shed blood to give us.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right… — 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
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
It is the Muslim community that has the best chance of stopping and checking and pushing back on people who are trying… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our… — 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
People care. Their hearts are open, but people don't know exactly what the Dreamers are going through, or what sanctuary cities are… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting… — 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
All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Every person with a pulse has a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community that is on the front lines… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right now, Muslims are being bullied. Women wearing hijabs are being bullied and people are saying, "Trump, Trump!" when they're doing it.” quote by Van Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/85a/van-jones-984_being-bullied_if-donald-trump-goes-after-if-trump-fail_1067444.jpg)
![“If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very hard to handle it right, then that's a - a huge advantage in the mid-terms for us.” quote by Van Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f4d/van-jones-984_advantage_if-donald-trump-throws-20-million-off-of_12893.jpg)
![“I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who has had the privilege to serve the country at that level should walk out and behave like a crybaby. And I plan to continue to serve the country in other capacities.” quote by Van Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3dc/van-jones-984_behave_i-learned-more-in-those-six-months-in-th_27061.jpg)
![“[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 she loved him.” quote by Van Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/def/van-jones-984_beats_donald-trump-is-a-horrible-human-being-b_54460.jpg)
