A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong... by Van Jones

A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.

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Nobody can come and be involved in the #LoveArmy unless they have... by Van Jones

Nobody can come and be involved in the #LoveArmy unless they have a heart.

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We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.

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I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and... by Van Jones

I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

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In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.

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If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.

real love-is thinking

[Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff, the misogyny, the outright bigotry and so now people are left to try to pull this apart.

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No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law. by Van Jones

No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law.

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Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

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When you take the people who most need work and connect them with the work that most needs doing, you save. You save that young person’s life, you save a whole bunch of money, and you save the soul of this country when you invest and give people a chance, give people hope, give people opportunity.

opportunity country people

Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.

fighting trying people

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.

diversity energy opportunity

Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship.

home jobs people

Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

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Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.

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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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Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start... by Van Jones

Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.

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We have gotten to the point where we're more like [Donald] Trump than Trump. Trump is hateful. Now you have liberals hating on love. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. There's nothing wrong with that. But sometimes you have to fight fire with water. I'm happy to fight it either way.

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Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

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Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.

climate moon fire

Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a co... by Van Jones

Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."

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