Van Jones Quotes

United States, Motivational Speaker
September 20, 1968

Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (born September 20, 1968) is an American news commentator, author, and non-practicing attorney. He is a co-founder of several nonprofit organizations, including the Dream Corps, a "social justice accelerator" that operates three advocacy initiatives: #cut50, #Yeswecode and Green for All. He is the author of The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream, both ranking as New York Times bestselling books. He is a regular CNN contributor and host of The Van Jones Show.

Also known as Human Rights Activist, Writer

I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.

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- Demand
- Command
- Underdog
The message is going to be the same. It's very simple. We're either going to turn to each other or on each other.

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- Simple
- Turns
- Messages

We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.

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- People
- Black
- Community
The problem is that we didn't fight the way we should've fought. We made it be about [Donald Trump] and [Hillary Clinton] as opposed to making it be about us. If we had said this was a fight, not about "I'm with Her" but "I'm with Us" then maybe we would've had a different attitude toward her.

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- Different
- Attitude
- Trump
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.

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- People
- Up
- Growing
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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- Thinking
- Struggle
- Moral
The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs.

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- Good
- Trump
- Jobs
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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- People
- Hope
- Humanity

We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.

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