If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Trust your intuition and be resilient. If you have real breakout ideas, even your friends will laugh at you secretly until you… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe. — 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
If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built. — 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
If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
There are some cities that are doing good stuff, but there aren't enough of them. If you don't fight for what you… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee… — 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
Donald Trump's a hell of a performer, he's a hell of an entertainer. If you put him on and let him say… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
You have the Republican Party, who see themselves in their heart of hearts as being a party of colorblind meritocracy. That's their… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a… — 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
We're going to do three things: teach-ins across the country so people can learn about each other's issues and causes; parties with… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If you want to understand what's going to happen, you can't look in the rearview mirror into the United States' history, because… — 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
If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I said and stand by it. I said that race was a part, and there was a part, that alt-right part, that… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The problem is that we didn't fight the way we should've fought. We made it be about [Donald Trump] and [Hillary Clinton]… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If you just say that, look at all the good stuff and you don't acknowledge the toxic stuff, you're wrong. If you're… — 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
If I didn't have that deep grounding, it would be very easy for me to just be someone who is consumed with… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If someone like myself, who is married to a white woman, who has spent my entire life building bridges, can't point out… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
All the old rules - if you say some crazy stuff you get your show canceled or you get your campaign ended… — 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… — 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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![“Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a conference that I happened to be attending for the launch of an organization called Blacks in Green. I had never heard of him and Peter had never heard of me. We just started talking; he liked what…” quote by Van Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/244/van-jones-984_attending_back-in-2007-i-met-this-white-guy-direct_2563243.png)
![“The problem is that we didn't fight the way we should've fought. We made it be about [Donald Trump] and [Hillary Clinton] as opposed to making it be about us. If we had said this was a fight, not about "I'm with Her" but "I'm with Us" then maybe we would've had a different attitude toward her.” quote by Van Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f95/van-jones-984_attitude_the-problem-is-that-we-didn-t-fight-the_1742335.png)
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