“What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.”
—Janet Mock
“When one person says, ‘Yeah, me, too,’ it gives permission for others to open up.”
—Tarana Burke (photo credit: Jon Tadiello)
“I wanted these survivors to know that I believe them, I supported them and that this happened to me, too.”
—Terry Crews (photo credit: Gage Skidmore)
“I want a world where survivors are believed and validated and supported.”
—Ayanna Pressley
“I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can’t fail if you do that.”
—Anita Hill (photo credit: Gage Skidmore)
“If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.”
—Kimberlé Crenshaw (photo credit: Heinrich-Böll Stiftung)
“I came here . . . to be a part of creating a new, more just world, to promulgate the living legacy of great Black women who’ve traveled this road before me and write a new chapter in Black feminism that makes it explicit that Black women can be unified, are powerful beyond measure, and they can work to turn this world right side up again.”
—Farah Tanis (photo credit: The Laura Flanders Show)
