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You have a new media system and Donald Trump emerged as a new master of it.

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.
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It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.
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[I wish no one ever asked me ] Did you sign that petition implicating the Bush Administration in 9/11? Because I never signed it, and I hate being vilified for a controversial idea I never espoused.
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I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.
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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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