Van Jones Quotes

It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.

The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

A hashtag is not a movement.

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

The fight against racism must be seen as a revolutionary one.

The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There's never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was.

21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the underlying drivers remain the same as desire to change the status quo.

The revolution will not be televised.

Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.

One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

If you just look at the fact that a woman was central in twittering the Cairo revolution, and women were central to the Tunisian uprising. Women are at the center of everything right now and moving everything forward. And I do think in the next year or two, we are going to see such a woman spring, such a rising.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more.