Quotes from Tarana Burke

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

Social media is not a safe space.

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.

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.

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 are a number of people who are anxious to leave #metoo behind and move on, but I don't think people realize how short of a time we have been discussing this issue compared to how long this has been an issue.

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.

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.

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

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

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

'Me Too' is about letting - using the power of empathy to stomp out shame.

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.

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.

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

I don't think that every single case of sexual harassment has to result in someone being fired; the consequences should vary. But we need a shift in culture so that every single instance of sexual harassment is investigated and dealt with. That's just basic common sense.

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

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

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