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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
Civil Rights Advocate
Environmentalist
Human Rights Activist
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Anthony Kapel Jones
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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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If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.
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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'm not calling for redistributing wealth I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth.
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The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.
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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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If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.
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I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.
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All the old rules - if you say some crazy stuff you get your show canceled or you get your campaign ended - don't apply in the world of social media. They don't apply in the world of reality TV.
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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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People in red states and blue states can agree that clean air is better than dirty air therefore we should use clean energy where we can.
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I used to be called the Green Jack Kemp because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.
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If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies.
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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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