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" Donald Trump has proven to be the kind of person who you can't reason with and who you can't have a logical conversation with - and who I can't imagine having a heart-to-heart conversation thinking that I would change something specifically about this person. "

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" I don't think that every single case of sexual harassment has to result in someone being fired; the consequences should vary. But we need a shift in culture so that every single instance of sexual harassment is investigated and dealt with. That's just basic common sense. "

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" I have been working with young people for more than 25 years. "

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" When one person says, 'Yeah, me, too,' it gives permission for others to open up. "

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" I think that women of color use social media to make our voices heard with or without the amplification of white women. I also think that, many times, when white women want our support, they use an umbrella of 'women supporting women' and forget that they didn't lend the same kind of support. "

" For every Harvey Weinstein, there's three or four thousand other pastors, coaches, teachers, uncles, cousins, and stepfathers who are committing the same crimes. We have to keep that in focus and we have to keep talking about it. "

" I want survivors to know that healing is possible. "

" People need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work. "

" I don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma. "

" If you give young people enough information, they'll figure out what to do with it. They just need a little guidance. "

" These movements aren't about anger. We're not angrily saying 'Black Lives Matter.' We're declaring it. It's a declaration. We want to be seen as robust, full human beings that have anger and have joy. We want to be able to just freely have that joy. Like everybody else does. "

" The personal is political for so many. "

" There's a power in empathy. "

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Empathy

" I want the women I work with to find the entry point to where their healing is. "

" An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like. "

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" We all have the right to an opinion, sure, but can we say how someone else should feel? "

" Sexual harassment does bring shame. "

" I didn't start Me Too as a hashtag, and had I had the opportunity to, I probably wouldn't have done it that way. I think that what has happened subsequently has been beautiful to watch, but what concerns me is what all of these survivors are going to do now. "

" Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing. "

" Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too. "

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" Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play. "

" I've done work in every area of social justice you can think of, but I've been highly focused on young people and then specifically black and brown girls. "

" The first thing I organized around was the Central Park Five case for the young men who were accused. We talked about the unfair misrepresentation of these young teenagers in the media. I've been fighting back against Donald Trump for a long time. "

" We have to have something that reaches the masses. That's what I've always known Me Too could do. "

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" People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth. "

" We use a term called 'empowerment through empathy.' And 'Me Too' is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me - right? - and it changed the trajectory of my healing process once I heard that. "

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" The work of #MeToo is about healing. It's about healing as individuals and healing as communities. "

" If I found a healing tree in my backyard, and it grew some sort of fruit that was a healing balm for people to repair what was damaged, I'm not going to just harvest all of those fruits and say, 'You cant have this.' If I have a cure for people, I'm going to share it. "

" Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something. "

" We talk about sexual harassment in the workplace, but there's sexual harassment in schools, right? There's sexual harassment on the street. So there's a larger conversation to be had. And I think it will be a disservice to people if we couch this conversation in about what happens in Hollywood or what happens in even political offices. "

" I just don't believe that 'no' is always a final answer - unless we're talking about consent. "