Community Quote by Tarana Burke

I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.

— Craig Brewer

The young girls of color that first encountered the 'me too' movement in community centers and classrooms and church basements were there not only…

— Tarana Burke

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups.…

— Toby Stephens

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

— Andrew Shue

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

— Pearl Cleage

When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there…

— Laura Jane Grace

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

— Hugh Masekela

I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a…

— Ed Kowalczyk

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

— Frederick Lenz

I collaborated with so many people from Chicago - so many Black people, young Black women organizations like BYP100 and Assata's Daughters. Just being…

— Vic Mensa

I was trained within a black radical tradition that encouraged struggle within our own movements because it sharpens collective analysis - bringing us closer…

— Patrisse Cullors

I've been in movement work since I was 16 years old. Black Lives Matter becomes an important part of the story, but it's not…

— Patrisse Cullors