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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.
— Tarana Burke
Tags: know, name, you, teacher

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I think that Me Too is for everybody. I think it's important that people feel validated.
— Tarana Burke
Tags: feel, think, people, me
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.'
— Tarana Burke
Tags: face, people, social-media, me
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.
— Tarana Burke
Tags: emotions, know, experience, me
I want survivors to know that healing is possible.
— Tarana Burke
Tags: possible, want, know, healing
What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.
— Tarana Burke
Tags: sympathy, people, time, me
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