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“If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.”
-- Van Jones

#Mistake #Saint #Transformation
“In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.”
-- Van Jones

#Democracy #Way #Should
“Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions.”
-- Van Jones

#Dream #Home #Turtles
“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.”
-- Van Jones

#Fighting #People #Trying
“It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.”
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#Spiritual #People #Humanity
“"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.”
-- Van Jones

#Mean #America #Government
“Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.”
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#Successful #Long #Green
“I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.”
-- Van Jones

#Son #Saint #Praying
“If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.”
-- Van Jones

#Magic #Genius #Movement
“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.”
-- Van Jones

#Gains #Helping #Help Me
“Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend Americaâ€™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

#Beautiful #Song #Grandma
“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.”
-- Van Jones

#Jobs #Home #People
“Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg”
-- Van Jones

#Captains #Iceberg #Barack
“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

#People #Community #Police
“Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when it put a man on the moon. Each one of us is a walking technological superpower.”
-- Van Jones

#Moon #Technology #College
“Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.”
-- Van Jones

#Jobs #School #Mean
“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.”
-- Van Jones

#Jobs #Home #Views
“All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?”
-- Van Jones

#Jobs #Work #Technology
“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 Chance #Giving #People
“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.”
-- Van Jones

#Moon #Fire #Climate
“Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.”
-- Van Jones

#War #World #Levels
“Ocean'sÂ remarkable stories, depth of commitment, and eloquent communication make him a fantastic resource for conferences, universities, and indeed everyone who wants a potent dose of grounded inspiration.”
-- Van Jones

#Ocean #Communication #Inspiration
“Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.”
-- Van Jones

#Leadership #Nature #Reality
“We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.”
-- Van Jones

#Running #Jobs #Business
“On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. I have been inundated with calls - from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. 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

#Lying #Fighting #Past
“A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.”
-- Van Jones

#Beautiful #Wise #Jobs
“Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.”
-- Van Jones

#Cowboy #Energy #Ranchers
“To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.”
-- Van Jones

#Powerful #Color #White
“Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.”
-- Van Jones

#Phones #Laptops #Revolution
“Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.”
-- Van Jones

#War #Government #Iraq

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