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Van Jones Inspirational Quotes (255)

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When you take the people who most need work and connect them with the work that most needs doing, you save. You save that young person’s life, you save a whole bunch of money, and you save the soul of this country when you invest and give people a chance, give people hope, give people opportunity.
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Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg
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No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law.
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To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.
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Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new green economy they are birthing?
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You know it's not you have to see it to believe it - sometimes you have to believe it to see it. You have to know what you're looking for when you're seeing signs of an authoritarian takeover of your country.
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Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.
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We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.
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The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.
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All the signals that the Democratic Party is a party that tolerates snobbery and bigotry against, frankly, a lot of traditional Christians, a lot of white guys who work hard every day and who don't feel that they are on top of the world, those signals are clear and it's a turn off.
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If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.
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You can't lead anybody you don't love. You can't do it. It's not possible.
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In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.
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If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to Trump who is only for white people and black people who like him.
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Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.
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If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.
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Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the Iraq War of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.
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A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.
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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, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.
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I am a proud Christian who has been greatly tutored by Hindus and Buddhists and Sufis and others, and I stand and I speak from that place.
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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 had to. America could not become America until it dealt with that. And did it deal with it perfectly? No. But it had to confront it.
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God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.
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I think it would be good to get somebody a job. Right now we're in a bubble of green rhetoric and a bowl of actual green investment and job creation. So my goal for next year is to move from inspiration to implementation on this stuff.
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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 century. We will need champions by the truckload.
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