Quote

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

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
Wisdom
Beauty
Religion
Great
Good
Strength

More quotes by Van Jones

Image
Steve Bannon is the biggest threat to democracy that we've faced since the Civil War, but in the Civil War the champion of democracy was in the White House. So, even then, we were probably in less danger as a country than we are right now.
Van Jones
Image
When it gets harder to love, love harder.
Van Jones
Image
When you get $1 billion of free advertising, it's hard not to have anybody buy the product.
Van Jones
Image
Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.
Van Jones
Image
In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.
Van Jones
Image
No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law.
Van Jones
Image
I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.
Van Jones
Image
I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.
Van Jones
Image
By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.
Van Jones
Image
This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity.
Van Jones
Image
Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and nobody else, trying to hurt America.
Van Jones
Image
I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.
Van Jones
Image
If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.
Van Jones
Image
Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when it put a man on the moon. Each one of us is a walking technological superpower.
Van Jones
Image
People care. Their hearts are open, but people don't know exactly what the Dreamers are going through, or what sanctuary cities are for, or what's positive about the American Muslim community. When you don't know a lot, you can't do a lot.
Van Jones
Image
[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.
Van Jones
Image
The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.
Van Jones
Image
The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.
Van Jones
Image
We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.
Van Jones
Image
Trump is holding together the shakiest coalition that you could conceivably govern on. It is a conservative, populist alliance that agrees with itself on very little.
Van Jones