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

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" There are so many different people doing amazing work across the country that I, in my capacity, definitely want to lift up, because they don't get lifted up that often. "

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

" 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. "

" Foundations have to think outside the box and maybe expand past the usual suspects that get all of the funding and start thinking about how to reach into communities and support community healing on a more local level. "

" We should collectively be talking to children - as young as kindergarten - about what consent looks like. "

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

" If we don't center the voices of marginalized people, we're doing the wrong work. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are. "

" Nobody can take you out of something, especially if you're the one who started it. "

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" 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. "

" I'm interested in talking to people and dealing with people who are set and ready for change and action. Who get it. And who are looking for solutions. "

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

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

" I'm really a worker and about rolling up my sleeves and doing the work. If that lands me a place in history, then I would be among amazing company. "

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" 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. "