Van Jones Quotes - Page 7

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• Frankly, the conservatives need to be better conservatives. Real conservatives actually respect our Constitution and would stand up to an authoritarian. Real conservatives believe in clean, limited government and would stand up to anybody who is basically setting up a kleptocracy, nepotism, and crony capitalism. And real conservatives are actually strong for America and not weak for Russia.

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  Strong, Real, Believe

  Source: pen.org

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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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  People, Faults, Attractive

  Source: pen.org

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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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  Pain, Real, People

  Source: pen.org

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• You can't lead anybody you don't love. You can't do it. It's not possible.

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  Love You

  Source: pen.org

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• The laws of spiritual physics will not allow you to lead somebody that you don't love, that you don't care about, that you resent, that you look down on. That's why the Republicans can't lead black people. And that's why Democrats increasingly can't lead these straight, white, male demons that we hate so much.

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  Spiritual, Hate, Law

  Source: pen.org

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• My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.

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  Uplifting, Children, Fighting

  Source: pen.org

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• I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists and a great nation from bigotry.

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  Thinking, Community, Bears

  Source: pen.org

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• I'm an environmentalist, and I don't want you to have a disposable aluminum can. I sure as hell don't want to have a disposable worker and I don't care who you vote for. You've got to have that as a moral position. Otherwise, my concern is, all we are is this petty interest group people who can't say anything back to a petty interest group of white nationalism.

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  White, People, Say Anything

  Source: pen.org

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• I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.

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  Native American, Thinking, Community

  Source: pen.org

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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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  Underdog, Demand, Command

  Source: pen.org

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• It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our energy future an area of common ground and not a battleground, they are still being rebuffed by dirty energy devotees in both parties and undermined overall by the polluter lobby.

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  Military, Party, Dirty

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were more concerned with donors than voters. And it wasn't a lot of heart felt on that campaign and I think it left us vulnerable.

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  Heart, Thinking, Data

  Source: pen.org

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• For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Islam

  Source: pen.org

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• I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last century. It had to. America could not become America until it dealt with that. And did it deal with it perfectly? No. But it had to confront it.

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  Thinking, America, Lasts

  Source: pen.org

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• We're getting back what we're putting out.

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  Source: pen.org

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• That old Bobby Kennedy 1968 form of liberalism where you could be holding hands with the Appalachian family on one day and then be in Harlem the next day and nobody thinks it's weird, that is something that isn't as strong. It was strong in 2008. It hasn't been as strong since then. That's just a reality that we have to deal with that it's not just that the Republicans ran a terrible candidate who had bad ideas, it's also that the circle of love and affirmation that we have as progressives can sometimes just not be big enough.

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  Strong, Reality, Thinking

  Source: pen.org

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• There seems to be a passive alliance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and that's unprecedented in its form and dangerous in its content, because Russia is our most dangerous geopolitical opponent because of the desires that they have in the Middle East and because of their desire to break up Europe. And in the United States, we spent a lot of blood and a lot of treasure trying to keep Europe intact and democratic, and trying to keep the Middle East from being only influenced by people who are massive fans of [Syrian President] Assad and massive fans of the Iranians.

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  Russia, Blood, Europe

  Source: pen.org

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• Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.

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  People, Architect, American Values

  Source: pen.org

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• If you want to understand what's going to happen, you can't look in the rearview mirror into the United States' history, because that's done now. You have to look out at the rest of the world and look at the history of the rest of the world, and what you'll see is demonstrations and counter-demonstrations are going to become the norm. We'll have a big march, then they'll have a big march, we'll have a big rally and they'll have a big rally. That will be one of the features. Again, a pro-regime and pro-opposition media system, that will become a feature.

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  Media, Mirrors, Looks

  Source: pen.org

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• Steve Bannon is clearly somebody who has studied not-normal politics and the Constitution and the Electoral College. He is somebody who has studied Hitler and Lenin and a lot of people who have seized power and unleashed blitzkriegs from above and created tiny cabals of power concentrated in a tiny group at the top. That's what authoritarians do. It's right out of the playbook.

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  College, People, Tiny

  Source: pen.org

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• The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.

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  Guy, Study, Problem

  Source: pen.org

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• Steve Bannon is the biggest threat to democracy that we've faced since the Civil War, but in the Civil War the champion of democracy was in the White House. So, even then, we were probably in less danger as a country than we are right now.

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  Country, War, White

  Source: pen.org

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• Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.

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  Real, Rap, People

  Source: pen.org

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• Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

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  Audacity, Currency

  Source: pen.org

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• I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

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  Humble, Superhero, Civil Rights

  Source: therumpus.net

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