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" What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy. "

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" 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. "

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

" Sexual harassment does bring shame. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I feel the reason people started using 'me too' is there is beauty and power in those words. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.' "

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

" The personal is political for so many. "

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

" What does justice look like for a survivor? It'll mean different things to different communities. "

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

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

" '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. "

" If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There's a power in empathy. "

" 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? "