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" 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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" For every R. Kelly or Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein, there's, you know, the owner of the grocery store, the coach, the teacher, the neighbor, who are doing the same things. But we don't pay attention until it's a big name. And we don't pay attention 'til it's a big celebrity. "

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Coach

You

Teacher

" 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. "

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

" We have to trust the voices of the community to be in leadership and know what we need for our communities. "

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

" Everybody has a lane. Everybody has something that they can contribute. "

" The young girls of color that first encountered the 'me too' movement in community centers and classrooms and church basements were there not only because they needed a safe space, but because they needed their own space. "

" 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. "

" As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing. "

" There's a power in empathy. "

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Power

Empathy

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

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Healing

Empathy

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

" You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane. "

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

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Young

People

" So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Tarana Burke

Think

Too

" 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 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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Something

Always

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

" 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. "

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Work

Start

" I don't work for Hollywood. "

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Work

Hollywood

" Men need to help reshape the conversation around consent. "

" There are a series of emotions that most survivors go through after disclosing. It starts with feeling great, like the weight on your shoulders has been lifted, and then you're alone with your thoughts, like, 'Why did I do that?' And then, what about the person who gets backlash? "

" 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. "

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Connect

Black

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