Ayanna Pressley actually said...

"It is so important--I am sorry you have to weaponize your pain in order for this survivor tribe to be seen and to be heard but it is so critical that this work be survivor led."

"Violence begets violence and trauma begets trauma, and so many families and communities like my own are passing along, unfortunately, the legacy of intergenerational trauma."

"It is critical that this work be survivor-led."

"We can't do them alone and so we have to be in partnership with those in our communities and it has to be community driven how these inequities play out."