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Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,I have a complaint.

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.
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I'm saying you should have the right not only to be an energy consumer but an energy producer. Follow the money to understand why my message keeps getting drowned out. Big oil and big coal are terrified by the green jobs message.
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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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In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.
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Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.
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Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.
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