Van Jones Professions : Civil Rights Advocate Born : September 20, 1968 Browse All Authors Top 315 quotes by Van Jones We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity. Van Jones business running jobs Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions. Van Jones turtles dream home 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. Van Jones turns simple messages I'm only 42, and I've got a lot more tricks up my sleeve. Van Jones sleeves tricks Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too? Van Jones oil climate america In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say. Van Jones democracy should way It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests. Van Jones humanity spiritual people All the old rules - if you say some crazy stuff you get your show canceled or you get your campaign ended - don't apply in the world of social media. They don't apply in the world of reality TV. Van Jones media crazy reality All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith. Van Jones fortunate humans have-faith You know it's not "you have to see it to believe it" - sometimes you have to believe it to see it. You have to know what you're looking for when you're seeing signs of an authoritarian takeover of your country. Van Jones sometimes believe country If I didn't have that deep grounding, it would be very easy for me to just be someone who is consumed with anger and hatred. And that would be Trump's great victory: to turn us into replicas of him, just on the other side of a wall screen. I refuse to let me or my family or my movement or my friends be turned into the opposite of Trump. I want to be the antidote for Trump. Van Jones wall hatred opposites Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes. Van Jones rich-countries war country If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built. Van Jones social-transformation saint mistake 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 If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius. Van Jones climate magic genius In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them. Van Jones real war country Trump is much, much worse than people understand. A lot of his supporters are actually much, much better than people know. Most of his supporters are not signed up for an authoritarian coup. Most of his supporters are signing up for better jobs for themselves. Van Jones trump jobs people The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures. Van Jones usual moon promise 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. Van Jones champion climate giants A lot of liberals think all the Trump voters are a part of the alt right, neo Nazi camp, which is not true. That's a tiny, tiny slice. Van Jones tiny voters thinking
