Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.
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
Running
Tell
America
Country
Long
Make
Stronger
People
Protect
Working
More quotes by Van Jones
For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.
Van Jones
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.
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
The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.
Van Jones
Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.
Van Jones
Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.
Van Jones
We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.
Van Jones
Donald Trump's going to start a war, he's going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because he's going to have to distract them from the no jobs.
Van Jones
Trump is much, much worse than people understand. A lot of his supporters are actually much, much better than people know. Most of his supporters are not signed up for an authoritarian coup. Most of his supporters are signing up for better jobs for themselves.
Van Jones
Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too.
Van Jones
If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very hard to handle it right, then that's a - a huge advantage in the mid-terms for us.
Van Jones
To the God in myself is probably the most honest answer. I think everybody has a divine destiny.
Van Jones
It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our energy future an area of common ground and not a battleground, they are still being rebuffed by dirty energy devotees in both parties and undermined overall by the polluter lobby.
Van Jones
I'm not going to let Donald Trump take away from our community, something that Fannie Lou Hamer shed blood to give us. Something that Ella Jo Baker braved conditions in the South and sweatshops in Harlem to give us.
Van Jones
Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.
Van Jones
I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.
Van Jones
We're getting back what we're putting out.
Van Jones
Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.
Van Jones
Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new green economy they are birthing?
Van Jones
To make sure we aren't training people for jobs that don't exist, the government should provide companies with loans or loan guarantees. And the government should also directly employ people to do things like coastal restoration, land restoration, reforestation and similar programs that absorb carbon and protect America's beauty.
Van Jones