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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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Trump is much, much worse than people understand. A lot of his supporters are actually much, much better than people know. Most of his supporters are not signed up for an authoritarian coup. Most of his supporters are signing up for better jobs for themselves.
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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 she loved him.
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There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House.
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Donald Trump's promised the moon. Now he has power. He's going to fail to deliver. He's not going to be able to bring a bunch of coal jobs back and a bunch of factory jobs back in this global economy. Period. Because you can't. It's not going to happen.
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Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.
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To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.
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The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.
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I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.
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Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.
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I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a person of faith not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.
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We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.
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In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.
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We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.
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There's a lot of things that I think you got to deal with. Hillary Clinton had to put down a rebellion in her own party, then she's going to have to put down the [Donald] Trump rebellion and then try to govern.
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Donald Trump's going to start a war, he's going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because he's going to have to distract them from the no jobs.
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That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.
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Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.
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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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The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused across party lines.
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We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workers/entrepreneurs - and save more money, through conservation and energy efficiency.
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