“I just know what we all should know by now: that no one who has lived publicly, online or off, has a spotless record.”— Liat Kaplan, nytimes.com
“Wanda Maximoff lived under the weight of considerable grief, and in that grief, she did something awful. We’ve all had some version of that in our lives. But that doesn’t excuse our bad actions amid that grief.”— Emily VanDerWerff, vox.com
“The whole system is broken, and we need a plan to fix it. That`s what my police reform plan would do by increasing transparency and accountability, setting a national use of force standard that says that lethal force should only be used if an officer has exhausted all other reasonable alternatives u…”— Julian Castro, msnbc.com
“Well, I think it’s very easy for people, who don’t want to evaluate their own beliefs, to assume that everything the other side is saying is a consequence of their personal moral failings, and their ignorance, and their malevolence, basically. It’s not helpful. I particularly think it’s unhelpful in…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com
“I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.”— Kirsten Gillibrand, web.archive.org
“He welcomed the process of holding himself accountable; he welcomed the opportunity to put his own behavior under a critical lens and declare it lacking and change it accordingly.”— EJ Dickson, menshealth.com
“If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then what's the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That's how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we die…”— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com
“Tony Robbins is so in the wrong here with his overt physical intimidation & verbal bullying tactics. The MeToo movement isn't trying to "get significance," it's pursuing justice & cultural change. MeToo isn't "attacking" someone else, it's holding perpetrators accountable.”— Peter Murphy, twitter.com
“If you talk to more SURVIVORS and less sexist businessmen maybe you’ll understand what we want. We want safety. We want healing. We want accountability. We want closure. We want to live a life free from shame.”— Tarana Burke, twitter.com
“There’s sexual harassment over here and you shouldn’t conflate it with rape. Which is true; those are two very different things. But they’re on the same spectrum. Sexual harassment is like the gateway drug. It’s the entry point.”— Tarana Burke, theguardian.com
“I don’t think that every single case of sexual harassment has to result in someone being fired; the consequences should vary. But we need a shift in culture so that every single instance of sexual harassment is investigated and dealt with.”— Tarana Burke, theguardian.com
“Sexual violence happens on a spectrum, and I think that accountability should happen on a spectrum as well.”— Tarana Burke, yesmagazine.org
“If you’re part of the 'I didn’t make this mess. It’s not my problem' crowd, you are part of the problem.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“Why do we need to talk about the redemption of men when we are right in the middle of the salvation of women? Not even the middle, but the very beginning? Why are we obligated to care about salvaging male careers when we have just begun to tell the stories that have plagued us for lifetimes? It seem…”— Amber Tamblyn, nytimes.com
“The problems in your life will persist until you learn to stop blaming & start taking accountability.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“Taking accountability is not about blaming yourself for the things that happened to you. It's understanding that you're the only one with the power to change your circumstances.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“Accountability is hard. Blame is easy. One builds trust the other destroys it.”— Simon Sinek, twitter.com
“You are responsible to no one and to nothing, except to yourself and to the truth as you see it.”— Chaim Potok, amazon.com
“Cry wolf often enough and you eventually get eaten by the wolf, even if the wolf is you.”— Kris Kidd, nakidmagazine.com