From denouncing College Republicans to bemoaning Donald Trump as president, a recent 90-minute kvetching session at UC Irvine featured a variety of students complaining about the perceived grievances they face.

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Among a highlight reel of additional quotes, according to the audio recording:

“Just listen to black trans women … I’m a strong believer that when one black trans women are liberated, everyone is liberated.”

“As of right now with his inauguration, his supreme court appointees, and his cabinet, there is no check and balance. The only true check and balance we have is the people.”

“A campus that brings a Breitbart white supremacist to campus twice can not claim to be supporting students of color. If you prioritize the free speech of a non-student over the tangible safety of students of color, you are not supporting students of color.”

“When I got a pacifier handed to me and I saw my peers getting pacifiers handed to them I was pretty uncomfortable.”

“’We will not shy away from racism,’ yet they refuse to name College Republicans, Milo Yiannopoulos and Breitbart in the same letter.” (Referring to an email administrators sent out to the students condemning racism.)

“I don’t have a job, I don’t really care, because at the end of the day I am at a university.”

“As of right now with his inauguration, his Supreme Court appointees, and his cabinet, there is no check and balance. The only true check and balance we have is the people”

“I don’t think it’s possible for any of our organizations or communities to combat Trump alone. We need to come together in the U.S. in the intersectionality of these issues if we really want to combat Trump.”

“It’s not a matter of who [Trump] is going to hit, it’s when.”

“Something that’s worked on the med school campus is making cultural sensitivity training mandatory for people to attend. There needs to be lectures or small group sessions where everyone must go. I like the idea of creating spaces where it’s a class or something for credit.”

“As someone who fights for liberal values, I am not sympathetic to the white voters who make over $50,000 a year and said that ‘we are going to vote for Trump,’ those people, I am not sympathetic to and I do not believe that you have to open your heart to them.”

“If you are a person of color in this room, if you are a woman in this room, you do not have to open your heart to them. They told you you’re not a person and it is okay to deal with that how you want.”

“Let’s be clear, this is violence. People are going to die because of what happened. Whether it is state backed violence that happens because they’re going to defund the affordable care act and people are going to lose their healthcare. Whether it will be state backed violence because we will change our policies that were moving forward on protecting people with disabilities.”

“Or whether it will be direct state violence when the state intervenes in communities that are not white communities, people are going to die because of what happened. And if we don’t start there we can’t have a conversation. People’s lives are on the line now and it’s time to get real about that.”