“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.” TurnsSimpleMessages Author:Van Jones
“If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.” IfsThinkingRealProblemUniverseLove IsWeakStrongestReal LovePersonal Problems Author:Van Jones
“Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.” ShouldMadFatigueOutrageBurn Out Author:Van Jones
“We have gotten to the point where we're more like [Donald] Trump than Trump. Trump is hateful. Now you have liberals hating on love. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. There's nothing wrong with that. But sometimes you have to fight fire with water. I'm happy to fight it either way.” WaySometimesHateFightingWaterFireTrumpHateful Author:Van Jones
“The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.” PeopleCountryUseJoySpiritBlackMoralCreativityWeaponsCapacityClarityAfrican AmericanBlack PeopleBoundlessHallelujahAmerican Spirit Author:Van Jones
“Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.” PeopleBlackTrumpIndiaTransformationUglyRedemption Author:Van Jones
“You put Hillary Clinton up against Donald Trump, I'm scared of the choice no matter what you do.” MatterChoicesTrumpNo Matter WhatClintonScared Author:Van Jones
“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.” IfsWayShouldMadeSaidDifferentProblemFightingAttitudeTrumpClintonMade ItDifferent Attitude Author:Van Jones
“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.” GivingCommunityBloodConditionsTrumpSouthShedOur CommunityBakersHarlemSweatshops Author:Van Jones
“[Donald Trump] is a horrible human being, but he ain't worse than Bull Connor. Fannie Lou loved Bull Connor and beat Bull Connor because she loved him.” HumansHuman BeingsTrumpBeatsHorribleBulls Author:Van Jones
