Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
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
Energy
National
Jobs
Clean
Everything
Toward
Matter
Duty
Patriotic
Would
Move
Argue
Security
Arguing
Economic
Independence
Moving
Climate
More quotes by 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
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.
Van Jones
When it gets harder to love, love harder.
Van Jones
We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.
Van Jones
Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.
Van Jones
Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.
Van Jones
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
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
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.
Van Jones
I am a proud Christian who has been greatly tutored by Hindus and Buddhists and Sufis and others, and I stand and I speak from that place.
Van Jones
Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship.
Van Jones
We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.
Van Jones
Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.
Van Jones
Ocean's remarkable stories, depth of commitment, and eloquent communication make him a fantastic resource for conferences, universities, and indeed everyone who wants a potent dose of grounded inspiration.
Van Jones
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.
Van Jones
Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.
Van Jones
Apparently, the fossil-fuel industry's strategy is to convince the American people that we should just burn all the way through the last of our oil and coal reserves.
Van Jones
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable.
Van Jones
[Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff, the misogyny, the outright bigotry and so now people are left to try to pull this apart.
Van Jones
I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.
Van Jones