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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.
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I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of national security - energy security, climate security, economic security, job security, everything.
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If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.
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If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right now, Muslims are being bullied. Women wearing hijabs are being bullied and people are saying, Trump, Trump! when they're doing it.
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A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.
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Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.
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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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Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and nobody else, trying to hurt America.
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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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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 main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.
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Now, we can live in this little, liberal bubble bath where everybody's supposed to like everybody and do all this stuff and understand our pain and know our history. But that, maybe, works in your dorm, that doesn't work in the real world, and people need to get out of all that.
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The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that the elite economic interests that are holding them down are also feeding them a bunch of lies.
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To the God in myself is probably the most honest answer. I think everybody has a divine destiny.
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Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.
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We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.
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We have the water, food and other industries which are also experiencing some redirection.
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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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Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.
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