Quotes from Tarana Burke

There's a power in empathy.

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.

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

'Me too' was just two words; it's two magic words that galvanised the world.