Van Jones Quotes

Taking bold climate action now has the potential to unleash the full power of business and at the same time lift millions of people out of poverty. We're the first generation to recognize this and the last generation that will have this opportunity.

Without a solution to the problems of the poor, we will not solve the problems of the world. We need projects, mechanisms and processes to implement better distribution of resources, from the creation of new jobs to the integral promotion of those who are excluded'.

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming and the global recession at the same time, with the same method. We can do this by putting people to work re-powering America with clean energy.

My development parameter is very simple. It is about how the poorest of the poor can benefit from development.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

I want to work for the poor in my country.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

… the world economy will only develop if it allows a dignified way of life for all human beings, from the eldest to the unborn child, not just for citizens of the G20 member states but for every inhabitant of the earth, even those in extreme social situations or in the remotest places.

We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can improve their lives, that has a positive effect on their communities, on their families, on their countries.

One of the most exciting opportunities created by renewable energy technologies like solar is the ability to help the world's poorest develop faster - but more sustainably too.

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

We need to create jobs across Africa and provide its growing population with a route out of poverty where they are.