Van Jones Quotes

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• Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."
• Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.
• It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.
• We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.
• If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies.
• If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.
• To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But…
• I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.
• The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be…
• The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.
• The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those…
• The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling…
• Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because…
• A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of demands. The momentum…
• Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.
• Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil…
• By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.
• Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.
• Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
• Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull…

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