Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.
Van Jones
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
Civil Rights Advocate
Environmentalist
Human Rights Activist
Lawyer
Motivational Speaker
Pundit
Jackson
Tennessee
Anthony Kapel Jones
Movement
Law
Affluence
Culture
Affluent
Change
Attract
Must
Include
People
Laws
Green
Majority
More quotes by Van Jones
If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.
Van Jones
Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.
Van Jones
The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs.
Van Jones
In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.
Van Jones
To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.
Van Jones
The prospects of green economic opportunity is going to be determined to a great extent by politicians arriving at some sort of bi-partisan resolution.
Van Jones
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.
Van Jones
You put Hillary Clinton up against Donald Trump, I'm scared of the choice no matter what you do.
Van Jones
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.
Van Jones
If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.
Van Jones
I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.
Van Jones
We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.
Van Jones
I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.
Van Jones
We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.
Van Jones
I said and stand by it. I said that race was a part, and there was a part, that alt-right part, that was a part of the whitelash. And if you listened to the whole quote, you would agree with what I said.
Van Jones
When somebody comes along and says, I think Washington, DC, sucks, that's not wrong.
Van Jones
When you get $1 billion of free advertising, it's hard not to have anybody buy the product.
Van Jones
When you take the people who most need work and connect them with the work that most needs doing, you save. You save that young person’s life, you save a whole bunch of money, and you save the soul of this country when you invest and give people a chance, give people hope, give people opportunity.
Van Jones
I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.
Van Jones
We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.
Van Jones
