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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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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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Donald Trump's promised the moon. Now he has power. He's going to fail to deliver. He's not going to be able to bring a bunch of coal jobs back and a bunch of factory jobs back in this global economy. Period. Because you can't. It's not going to happen.
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Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.
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I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.
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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.
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I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.
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There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.
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I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last century. It had to. America could not become America until it dealt with that. And did it deal with it perfectly? No. But it had to confront it.
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Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.
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