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Danh ngôn của Tarana Burke (Sứ mệnh: 4)

These movements aren't about anger. We're not angrily saying 'Black Lives Matter.' We're declaring it. It's a declaration. We want to be seen as robust, full human beings that have anger and have joy. We want to be able to just freely have that joy. Like everybody else does.
So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice.
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.
As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.
What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.
Social media is not a safe space.