Van Jones Quotes About Community

• The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance.

  Van Jones

  Segunda Oportunidad, Gente, Dar

  "The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems". Book by Van Jones, 2008.

• The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Police

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

• I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our innocence is one of the most important acts of self-liberation and de-colonization. Not letting the requirement that we adapt to impossible circumstances and unconscionable crimes leave us shackled to the kind of cynicism and armor such that we can't breathe and laugh and magnetize to ourselves all the genius and love and support that we need to transform the situation. That's probably the biggest challenge, is to recover our innocence.

  Van Jones

  Thinking, Laughing, Support

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• Parece que olvidamos que todo lo que es bueno para el medio ambiente es un trabajo. Los paneles solares no se instalan solos. Los aerogeneradores no se fabrican solos. Las casas no se reacondicionan por sí solas y ponen sus propias calderas y hornos nuevos y ventanas y puertas mejor ajustadas. Los cultivos avanzados para biocombustibles no se plantan solos. Los huertos comunitarios no se cultivan solos. Los mercados agrícolas no funcionan solos. Todo lo que es bueno para el medio ambiente es en realidad un trabajo, un contrato o una oportunidad empresarial.

  Van Jones

  Running, Empleo, Empresa

  Van Jones (2013). "Reconstruir el sueño", p.187, Nation Books.

• If [Donald ] Trump goes after - if Trump fails, frankly, to stand up right now for the Muslim community - right now, Muslims are being bullied. Women wearing hijabs are being bullied and people are saying, "Trump, Trump!" when they're doing it.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Hijab

  Fuente: abcnews.go.com

• Every person with a pulse has a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community that is on the front lines fighting against groups like ISIS, both militarily and ideologically, every day, and now on the front line of standing up for civil liberties and civil rights to make America great. [They] are the best insurance for the safety of all Americans.

  Van Jones

  Responsibility, Fighting, America

  Fuente: pen.org

• The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.

  Van Jones

  Strong, Jobs, Jail

• Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.

  Van Jones

  Leadership, Nature, Reality

• People care. Their hearts are open, but people don't know exactly what the Dreamers are going through, or what sanctuary cities are for, or what's positive about the American Muslim community. When you don't know a lot, you can't do a lot.

  Van Jones

  Heart, Cities, People

  Fuente: www.ebony.com

• It is the Muslim community that has the best chance of stopping and checking and pushing back on people who are trying to politicize their own faith. So this attack on Islam is an attack on a great faith. It undermines the people who are trying to rescue this faith from these horrible people. It endangers every human being on earth because it accelerates the radicalization of some and emboldens the worst elements of that faith. So this fight is a fight I think that we have to take on.

  Van Jones

  Lucha, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: pen.org

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

  Van Jones

  Justice, Community, Suffering

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.

• 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.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Black

  Fuente: www.ebony.com

• Antiguos terrenos abandonados, zonas urbanas deprimidas y pueblos rurales duramente castigados florecen como parques ecoindustriales, zonas empresariales verdes y ecoaldeas. Los mercados agrícolas, las cooperativas comunitarias y los mercados ambulantes llevan productos frescos y ecológicos a quienes no pueden permitirse comprar en tiendas de alimentación sana.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Climate

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

• If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

  Van Jones

  Past, Color, Years

• I'm not going to let Donald Trump take away from our community, something that Fannie Lou Hamer shed blood to give us. Something that Ella Jo Baker braved conditions in the South and sweatshops in Harlem to give us.

  Van Jones

  Blood, Giving, Community

  Fuente: www.ebony.com

• We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.

  Van Jones

  Garden, Community, Fuel

  Fuente: rooseveltinstitute.org

• I am 100 percent on the side of insisting that white people step up to a different level of consciousness and commitment and the great gifts of the West and the great gifts of white culture and white community be used for a better purpose than this nonsense of supporting Trump. I insist on that. I refuse to accept that. I refuse to accept that we are going to give over 60 million people over to this guy.

  Van Jones

  Commitment, White, People

  Fuente: pen.org

• The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.

  Van Jones

  Country, Community, Climate

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

• Los habitantes de los estados rojos y azules pueden estar de acuerdo en que si podemos luchar contra la contaminación y la pobreza al mismo tiempo, permitiendo a la gente salir de la pobreza sin socavar la salud de la comunidad, tenemos la obligación moral de hacerlo.

  Van Jones

  Fighting, Blue, People

  Fuente: rooseveltinstitute.org

• Dios elige a veces que la comunidad soporte una carga injusta para obligarnos a elevarnos al siguiente nivel de conciencia y comprensión.

  Van Jones

  Community, Understanding, Next Level

  Fuente: pen.org

• Tenemos que enviar cientos de millones de dólares a nuestros institutos públicos, escuelas de formación profesional y colegios comunitarios para que empiecen a formar a la gente en el trabajo ecológico del futuro: cosas como la instalación de paneles solares, la modernización de edificios que pierden energía, la recuperación de aguas residuales, los alimentos orgánicos, la reutilización y el reciclaje de materiales.

  Van Jones

  Work, School, College

• Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.

  Van Jones

  Circles, People, Justice

  Fuente: aalbc.com

• 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.

  Van Jones

  Native American, Thinking, Community

  Fuente: pen.org

• Todas las grandes ideas para conseguir una trayectoria con menos emisiones de carbono implican que mucha gente haga mucho trabajo, y eso ha estado ausente de la conversación. Este es un buen momento para dar el siguiente paso y preguntarnos: ¿quién va a hacer el trabajo? ¿Quién va a invertir en las nuevas tecnologías? ¿Cuáles son las formas de conseguir riqueza para las comunidades, mejorar la salud y ampliar las oportunidades de empleo a partir de esta transición mejorada?

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Technology

• In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable.

  Van Jones

  Color, Organization, Community

  Fuente: aalbc.com

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