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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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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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I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.
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When it gets harder to love, love harder.
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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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Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.
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Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.
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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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There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
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After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.
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...we're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.
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In America, we're in the middle of a cyberwar with Russia.
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God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.
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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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Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.
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The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.
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We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.
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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.
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Asia is rising economically - and is thirsty for oil. The price pressures on oil and oil price shocks, due to Asia's economic rise, mean that all steps made now to reduce oil dependence will protect us from pain and volatility later.
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We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon.
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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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