“I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.” Quote by Van Jones
“Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensRealReasonSourceTypeRapOppressionMonotheism Author:Van Jones
“A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.” AnalysisOne SidedWrong Direction Author:Van Jones
“There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.” ShouldGreat Wisdom Author:Van Jones
“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.” ShouldSpeakNationsGreat NationsBigotsGreat Faith Author:Van Jones
“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.” Has BeensChristianSpeakProudBuddhistSufi Author:Van Jones
“I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.” ThinkingSometimesLosesDangerousSmartGainsVery Smart Author:Van Jones
“What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were more concerned with donors than voters. And it wasn't a lot of heart felt on that campaign and I think it left us vulnerable.” PeopleThinkingHeartLeftFeltSawsConcernedClintonCampaignsVulnerableDataVotersPollsDonorsDummyHeart Felt Author:Van Jones
“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.” ThinkingStatesUnitedDealsHalfMoralUnited StatesStruggleCenturyIslamDefiningMoral Struggle Author:Van Jones
“I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last century. It had to. America could not become America until it dealt with that. And did it deal with it perfectly? No. But it had to confront it.” ThinkingLastsAmericaDealsCenturyAfrican AmericanDisenfranchisement Author:Van Jones
“America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.” AmericaDealsIssuesCenturyIslamIncludingGenderTrans Author:Van Jones
