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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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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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We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.
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Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.
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I hope everybody's getting smarter.
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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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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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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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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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[Donald Trump] has a tremendous opportunity, you know, this week, to come out and say I don't want that.
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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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Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.
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If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.
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It's become fashionable to put down people who we then expect to vote for us.
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[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.
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The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.
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Ninth generation American, ma'am, and I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American. And so we have not escaped because I went to Yale all the problems of this country.
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You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV.
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There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They're nowhere near a majority. They're a small number. But there are people who are in the Alt-Right who are just straight up bigots.
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People in red states and blue states can agree that clean air is better than dirty air therefore we should use clean energy where we can.
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