Quotes from Linda Sarsour

My family is originally from Palestine, who came here to the United States, you know, from an occupied land to find a better life and find security and safety.

I'm Muslim. I'm Palestinian. I'm a woman in a hijab.

The Palestinian people were governing themselves before the creation of the State of Israel.

I believe in the liberation of the Palestinian people.

One of the areas that many of us, including the Women's March organizers, are focusing on is starting mass voter registration and voter engagement.

We show up to fight racism, anti-black racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, anti-Semitism, because after Donald Trump is out of office, there will still be all those things here.

Do you care about climate justice? Are you about women's rights and women's reproductive rights? Do you care about civil liberties and the Voting Rights Act? There are so many opportunities for people to go back and be inspired and plug into their own community.

There are plenty of Muslim women who are backbones of the community, but they aren't usually at the forefront. There just aren't a lot of me out there - women in hijabs, doing what I do.

One of the things that makes me horrified about a Trump administration is the continued use of code words like 'law and order.'

Jared Kushner is the last person that should be trying to bring peace to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

It makes me sad that our kids are growing up in a country where they are American but, in a sense, have to prove it. They can't just be who they are like everyone else. Who they are is something suspicious, something scary, something misunderstood.

We have never been outnumbered, we have only been out organized.

None of us live single-issue lives... That is why intersectionality is a strength, not a weakness.

There's a conflation between the critique of the state of Israel and their policies with anti-Semitism, which I think is really flawed and inaccurate.

I'm not going to hide my positions to make anyone else feel comfortable.

BDS has been used as a tactic to raise awareness for Palestinian people, including women and their children.

Sharia is, for me, a personal basic set of guidelines that Muslims follow. It's about being respectful to elders. It's about praying five times a day. It's about etiquette that I have with members of my family. It's about inheritance, and it's about how we get married. Just the kind of basic things that anyone engages in in life.

We at the Women's March tried intersectionality, and we were the group that said we're going to do it right, and we're going to defy our women-of-color elders who told us, 'We did this with the white woman before, and it doesn't work.'

I will not walk away from the people and communities whom I love deeply. I will continue to raise my voice for justice and equality for all, organize communities who want to defend the rights of black people, stand against policies that target and marginalize Muslims, and advocate for health care for all people.

Reading a teleprompter is not what makes you presidential. It's your actions that you take, and it's democracy.

I'm a Palestinian-Muslim, but I'm also a progressive.

It's not enough just to elect people of color and women of color and progressives. We need to make sure that they have a work plan and that they are - continue to align with the communities that helped get them to where they're at.

Women need to find the courage to demand what they rightfully deserve. Women should be paid for the same work as their male counterparts, ask for promotions, and stand in their power in their place of employment, whether they are in a boardroom or in the movement.

We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.