I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people. Van Jones More Quotes by Van Jones More Quotes From Van Jones The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance. Van Jones second-chancegivingpeople Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody. That is MLK, that is Dolores Huerta, that is Fannie Lou Hamer, that is Ella Jo Baker, that is Nelson Mandela. You walk down the line. Van Jones linesrealitypeople When it gets harder to love, love harder. Van Jones harder Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come. Van Jones generationstogetherwinning Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits. Van Jones communitysufferingjustice America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration rates and pollution. We can be a better country. I think we're going to be a better country. Van Jones warcountrythinking Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart. Van Jones dont-trustsmartpeople To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new industries. This necessary shift opens up tremendous new opportunities for work and wealth creation. Van Jones opportunityamericapeople With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good. But, without anybody acknowledging it, there is now this little camp of folks who come across as very elitist, that look down on red state voters, who think that Republicans are dumb people. Van Jones partypeoplethinking The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment. Van Jones policecommunitypeople The problem that we have in America now is, some people only see the positive stuff and wave off the toxic stuff, and some people only see the toxic stuff and wave off the positive stuff. You can't have an honest conversation. Van Jones toxicamericapeople I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends. Van Jones radicalsatisfactionends 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. Van Jones armybluepeople Anybody who's mad should run for something. Van Jones madshouldrunning Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg Van Jones icebergbarackcaptains We need to think bigger, dream bigger, and get bigger. Van Jones think-bigdreamthinking We're going to do three things: teach-ins across the country so people can learn about each other's issues and causes; parties with a purpose so we can shake our butts and not let this man steal our joy; and we're going to do big concerts and revivals with some of the biggest artists in the world. If [Donald] Trump can have 20,000 people for big hate rallies then we can have 40,000 people in arenas for love rallies. Van Jones partyhatecountry I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. Van Jones fightinghandspast I said and stand by it. I said that race was a part, and there was a part, that alt-right part, that was a part of the whitelash. And if you listened to the whole quote, you would agree with what I said. Van Jones agreeracesaid Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty -- from the oil spillers, the clear-cutters and the mountaintop removers. Deep patriots don't just visit the Statue of Liberty and send a postcard home to grandma. We defend the principles upon which that great monument was founded -- 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' Van Jones grandmasongbeautiful
