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About Tarana Burke
American activist from New York City
Tarana Burke is an American activist from New York City, known for starting the Me Too movement. She began the work in 2006 through a youth program for junior and high school students. Burke launched Me Too to confront the widespread sexual violence affecting her community. In 2017, #MeToo spread into a global movement after Alyssa Milano urged women to use the phrase online in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein abuse cases.
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- “I have been working with young people for more than 25 years.”Tarana Burke
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- “Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.”Tarana Burke
Reflections: more sayings
- “Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not…”Pam Grier
- “Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”James Russell Lowell
- “Our state, so full of promise, has become the land of broken promises. And the promise-breaker-in-chief is Go…”Kevin Faulconer
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Books by Tarana Burke
Unbound
2021
You Are Your Best Thing
2021