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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
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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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I'm excited about our rising generation.
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When somebody comes along and says, I think Washington, DC, sucks, that's not wrong.
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Nobody can come and be involved in the #LoveArmy unless they have a heart.
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America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.
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I learned more in those six months [ in the White House] than in the prior six years. I don't think that anybody who has had the privilege to serve the country at that level should walk out and behave like a crybaby. And I plan to continue to serve the country in other capacities.
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I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were good, hardworking folks who kept us in the church and the public schools, and out of trouble, for the most part.
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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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