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I do feel kind of like I have a split identity in that there's Van Jones, who has this big public role and tries to inspire millions of people to do new stuff together. And then there's just me: a pretty quiet, shy, retiring person.
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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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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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I'm not going to let Donald Trump take away from our community, something that Fannie Lou Hamer shed blood to give us. Something that Ella Jo Baker braved conditions in the South and sweatshops in Harlem to give us.
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People can tell if you don't like 'em. African Americans can tell we're not welcome in the Republican Party no matter how many times they say we are. All the signals that it's a party that tolerates anti-black racism is very clear.
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We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.
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There are some cities that are doing good stuff, but there aren't enough of them. If you don't fight for what you want, then you deserve what you get. And in politics, if you don't ask, you don't get at all.
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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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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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When it gets harder to love, love harder.
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Maybe we should be a little bit more tender-hearted.
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I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.
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In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.
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Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.
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I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.
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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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To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.
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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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If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.
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Now, we can live in this little, liberal bubble bath where everybody's supposed to like everybody and do all this stuff and understand our pain and know our history. But that, maybe, works in your dorm, that doesn't work in the real world, and people need to get out of all that.
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