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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors. "

" I'm grounded in joy; I'm not grounded in the trauma anymore. "

" There is always a way to get what you need, and I really believe in taking what you have to make what you need. "

" 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. "

" Smoking is definitely not cool anymore, and the folks who have worked against that have done a great job. "

" I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us and say, 'Help us organize something.' We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves. "

" 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. "

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

" I founded the 'me too' movement in 2006 because I wanted to find a way to connect with the black and brown girls in the program I ran. "

" The work is more than just about the amplification of survivors and quantifying their numbers. The work is really about survivors talking to each other and saying, 'I see you. I support you. I get it.' "

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

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

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

" 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 come together and speak honestly about what the barriers are within our community - and then tear them down. It's really that simple. "

" I don't work for Hollywood. "

" 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. "

" People ask me what men can do, and I tell them, even if you're not a perpetrator, you should believe women - or queer folks - when they say that they have been violated. "

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

" Men are not the enemy, and we have to be clear about that. "

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

" 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. "

" I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.' "

" I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.' "