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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
Civil Rights Advocate
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Steve Bannon is the biggest threat to democracy that we've faced since the Civil War, but in the Civil War the champion of democracy was in the White House. So, even then, we were probably in less danger as a country than we are right now.
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All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.
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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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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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The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.
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We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon.
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Playing the villain gets you higher ratings on reality TV and saying outrageous stuff on Twitter gets you more followers.
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I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do.
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Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,I have a complaint.
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It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.
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Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.
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I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.
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I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.
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