Tarana Burke Quotes

Different victims, different survivors of different crimes will choose to pursue different paths. And hopefully, over time, we can collectively transform our culture into one that prioritizes healing and prevention instead of simply focusing on punishment.

The work of #MeToo is about healing. It's about healing as individuals and healing as communities.

I always want to give the victim a voice.

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

The healing of a nation is a slow process that requires patience. It begins with truth telling, the confession of wrong-doing, the genuine respect for forgiveness and the willingness to accept the consequences of one's actions.

Privacy is so sacred, and any time a victim is returned, a survivor is found and rescued, privacy is one of the greatest gifts we can give them because if they decide to share, that's up to them, and they will come forward.

I've been really consistent throughout the campaign and since I won that I want to prioritize victims rights and I want to prioritize healing.

I'm all for accountability courts and helping those who need helping.

I want survivors to know that healing is possible.

If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don't include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished.

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

After genocide, justice is impossible …. You cannot put all these people who committed these atrocities to death or in prison.

As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

I pray that people will stand by women who have been violated and victimized.

I believe that victims of sexual harassment must be allowed to tell their story on their time, in their own way.

I fight to prioritize black mothers and black children because we deserve to live in a world where our healing is centered and our lives are treated with dignity, respect, and care.