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You can't lead anybody you don't love. You can't do it. It's not possible.

Van Jones

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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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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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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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By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.
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Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.
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It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?
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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.
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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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Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.
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Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.
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We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.
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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.
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In America, we're in the middle of a cyberwar with Russia.
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