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God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
Civil Rights Advocate
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The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.
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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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[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.
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Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.
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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.
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Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
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The Love Army is a growing network of people who want to stick up for the underdogs in the red states and blue states in the era of [Donald] Trump.
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Donald Trump's a hell of a performer, he's a hell of an entertainer. If you put him on and let him say his crazy stuff, you're going to get a lot of viewers. If you take him off and have some sober discussion about what's going on in Syria, you're going to lose 80 percent of your audience.
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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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Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.
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Local politics matters a lot.
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If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies.
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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.
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If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.
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In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming and the global recession at the same time, with the same method. We can do this by putting people to work re-powering America with clean energy.
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The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs.
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The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.
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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.
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