Van Jones Quotes

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

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

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

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

Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

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.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.

Anybody who's mad should run for something.

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.

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

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.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

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.

Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

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

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

[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.

Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.

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

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

To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

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

Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.

The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.

We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.

It's become fashionable to put down people who we then expect to vote for us.

We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.

God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.

I am a proud Christian who has been greatly tutored by Hindus and Buddhists and Sufis and others, and I stand and I speak from that place.

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.

This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity.

Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and nobody else, trying to hurt America.

Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.

We need a national renewable energy goal. Such a goal, sometimes called a renewable energy standard (RES), would spell out what percentage of our power America plans to get from renewable sources.

Keith Ellison is the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the progressive movement.

There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right policy in place to promote clean energy.

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

People are going to have to do a big reset. But this is a big wake-up call to the entire establishment, including the Democrats. And not just because of the failure.

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

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.

We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based fuel. That's the #1 problem.