Van Jones Quotes

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.

Van Jones

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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.

  

  Van Jones
  • Thinking
  • Moral
  • Struggle