Van Jones
speaker
316 appearances
13 recordings
7 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Aug
Van Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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These things can ruin a person.
These things can ruin a nation.
And it's the old ways, ancient intelligence,
Don't underestimate those mosques and temples and synagogues and churches and Native American ceremonies and prayer circles for you to come home and get your head on straight because you being in a greed and speed trap
where you feel the only values that matter are greed and speed, is not good for you.
It's not good for your decision-making.
It's not good for your heart.
Don't underestimate these little black churches.
that had nothing but praying hands and marching feet and changed a whole nation.
Don't underestimate your grandma.
Don't underestimate ancestral wisdom.
We need you to come back, and you need us too.
You need us too.
There is a way forward together.
And now on the other side, I do want to say something to my friends on the grassroots side.
Yes, we want our tech folks to come back to ancestral intelligence, ancient intelligence, grassroots intelligence.
But we've gotten a little bit away from that stuff too.
Those of us who work at the grassroots, whose hearts are with people who don't have very much, whose hearts are with people who have to choose between fewer pills or fewer meals this week, that's where our hearts are.
Our hearts are with people whose main enemy isn't another rival tech firm.
It's the check engine light.
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