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

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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.

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• ‟ 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.'

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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