Quote

If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to Trump who is only for white people and black people who like him.

Van Jones

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
Civil Rights Advocate
Environmentalist
Human Rights Activist
Lawyer
Motivational Speaker
Pundit
Jackson
Tennessee
Anthony Kapel Jones
People
Trump
White
Black
Nothing
Like

More quotes by Van Jones

Image
Keith Ellison is an organizer's organizer.He's one of the only Muslims in Congress, so you have a big statement there.
Van Jones
Image
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.
Van Jones
Image
A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.
Van Jones
Image
The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.
Van Jones
Image
A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.
Van Jones
Image
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.
Van Jones
Image
Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Here's an issue where his concern is this line with public opinion, but the way he deals with it is actually puts him in a super minority in terms of people who are able to somehow bring himself to support his language and demeanor.
Van Jones
Image
A lot of liberals think all the Trump voters are a part of the alt right, neo Nazi camp, which is not true. That's a tiny, tiny slice.
Van Jones
Image
We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.
Van Jones
Image
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?
Van Jones
Image
We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based fuel. That's the #1 problem.
Van Jones
Image
The problem isn't that the green jobs aren't sexy enough. It's that they're not plentiful enough. A young person looking for a job isn't looking just for a sexy job, they're looking for any job.
Van Jones
Image
There's a level of self-hatred in giving these people too much power. They're sorry. They're corny. They're hateful. They need some help. Help is on the way. We'll help them whether they like it or not.
Van Jones
Image
I'm learning and changing all the time, and I expect to continue doing so my entire life.
Van Jones
Image
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.
Van Jones
Image
As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like How are we going to avoid baking the planet, and How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans? Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare I'm calling for more work.
Van Jones
Image
I'm only 42, and I've got a lot more tricks up my sleeve.
Van Jones
Image
Anybody who's mad should run for something.
Van Jones
Image
I hope everybody's getting smarter.
Van Jones
Image
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.
Van Jones