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

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" Part of the job is to find out what they need. #MeToo is about helping people find those resources. "

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" I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them. "

" There's a power in empathy. "

" 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. "

" At the start of my career - not just Me Too, which is not the totality of my career - I wish I would have known that you don't have to sacrifice everything for a cause. And that self-care and self-preservation is also a tool that is necessary to do the work. "

" When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be about famous white women has everything to do with who the media places attention on. "

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

" I started doing organizing work as a teenager. I was part of an organization called the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement at 14. "

" 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. "

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

" Anita Hill thanklessly put herself and her career as a law professor on the line more than 25 years ago to publicly name Clarence Thomas for sexually harassing her at work. "

" In many regards, Me Too is about survivors talking to survivors. "

" Inherently, having privilege isn't bad, but it's how you use it, and you have to use it in service of other people. "

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

" I have a lot of experience - not just with my 'Me Too' campaign but with survivors disclosing. I know that there is a wave of emotions that happens after that. "

" The world doesn't realise I have a regular job! "

" I think that Me Too is for everybody. I think it's important that people feel validated. "

" Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over a decade to no avail. "

" 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. "

" I founded the Me Too Movement because there was a void in the community that I was in. There were gaps in services. There was dearth in resources, and I saw young people - I saw black and brown girls - who are hurting and who needed something that just wasn't there. "

" I'm all about cultivating joy in your life. "

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

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

" 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. "

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