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I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
Civil Rights Advocate
Environmentalist
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Anthony Kapel Jones
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I'm excited about our rising generation.
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Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new green economy they are birthing?
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I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.
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For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.
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If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.
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[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.
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