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• 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

  America, People, Toxic

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• Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg

  Van Jones

  Captains, Iceberg, Barack

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.32, Nation Books

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• 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

  Reality, People, Lines

  Source: pen.org

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• 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

  Opportunity, America, People

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I don't understand why corporate polluters should be allowed to dump megatons of carbon, the most dangerous pollution in the history of the world, into our thin shell of an atmosphere, and not pay a penny to do it.

  Van Jones

  Atmosphere, Yards, Ordinary

  Source: aalbc.com

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• 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

  Beautiful, Song, Grandma

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.228, Nation Books

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

  Van Jones

  Law, Above The Law

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• Anybody who's mad should run for something.

  Van Jones

  Running, Mad, Should

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We need to think bigger, dream bigger, and get bigger.

  Van Jones

  Dream, Thinking, Think Big

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Children, Training

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our innocence is one of the most important acts of self-liberation and de-colonization. Not letting the requirement that we adapt to impossible circumstances and unconscionable crimes leave us shackled to the kind of cynicism and armor such that we can't breathe and laugh and magnetize to ourselves all the genius and love and support that we need to transform the situation. That's probably the biggest challenge, is to recover our innocence.

  Van Jones

  Thinking, Laughing, Support

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist populist [Donald Trump] who is now in the White House with an authoritarian strongman who has no regard for facts, no regard for tradition, and no regard for the Constitution. That is what you get when you import third world conditions. You get third world politics, and that's where we are now.

  Van Jones

  White, House, World

  Source: pen.org

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• Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart.

  Van Jones

  Smart, People, Don't Trust

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Fighting, Past, Hands

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.36, Nation Books

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• As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet," and "How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans?" Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare; I'm calling for more work.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Asking Questions, Offering

  Source: aalbc.com

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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.

  Van Jones

  Dream, Book, Son

  Source: aalbc.com

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• 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

  Race, Said, Agree

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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

  Van Jones

  Thinking, Reason, Hoping For The Best

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Interview with S.E. Cupp, www.nydailynews.com. August 23, 2013.

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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.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Home

  "The Green Options". May 29, 2007.

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• [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.

  Van Jones

  People, Trying, Toxic

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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.

  Van Jones

  Opportunity, Diversity, Energy

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.17, Harper Collins

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

  Van Jones

  Analysis, One Sided, Wrong Direction

  Source: pen.org

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• 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

  Interview with S.E. Cupp, www.nydailynews.com. August 23, 2013.

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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.

  Van Jones

  Country, Opportunity, People

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