Generations Quotes by Van Jones

9 Generations quotes by Van Jones

Van Jones’s nine short remarks on generations blend activism with optimism, highlighting the power of collective effort across ages.

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I'm excited about our rising generation.

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Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

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I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.

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We're just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in…

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Ninth generation American, ma'am, and I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.…

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We are talking about capital-intensive enterprises, so market certainty is the key. Investors and entrepreneurs have to know that there will be…

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That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class…

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The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf…

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I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack]…

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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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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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