Quotes from Linda Sarsour

Our obligation is to our young people, is to our women, to make sure our women are protected in our community.

My American side makes me fearless.

When you talk about feminism, you're talking about the rights of all women and their families to live in dignity, peace, and security. It's about giving women access to health care and other basic rights.

I have been part of fights where we have been told, 'You will not win,' and we have won.

If you have a march that's entirely white women or a march that maybe is entirely black women, it's going inspire those who look like them, which is fine. Our idea is that we want to inspire as diverse of a group of people as possible.

I wholeheartedly believe that we can't organize just as women. There has to be specific messaging and an issue prioritization based on identity groups. Because when you ask a black woman what her top priority issues are versus a white woman versus a Muslim woman versus an undocumented woman, you're going to get... different answers.

I think the Women's March is actually reflective of this idea that you can create a big tent, but that doesn't mean the people inside of the tent are going to agree on everything. In fact, they might have very public fights about the things that they don't agree with.

Since when can somebody tell me a time or a case where there has been a Syrian refugee in this country who has committed an act of terror?

I was the head of fundraising for the Women's March, and I chose not to take money from corporations.

Being a Muslim American activist, I've been targeted by the right wing in a way that is very dangerous.

If you woke up this morning and you are breathing, and you are Muslim, then you are political. You have no choice but to be political in a country that has politicized you and politicized your religion.

I hope that we when we stand up to those who oppress our communities that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad.

I think Bernie Sanders is a realist.

Can we be against anti-Semitism and understand that it's at the root of white supremacy? So you can't tell me to combat anti-Semitism if you're not ready to join me and tell me, 'Let's end white nationalism and white supremacy,' which is really the real threat on all Americans.

Time and time again, organizers have proved that when we work together, when we organize together, that we can win.

I'm not just a token Muslim.

When you're trying to inspire individuals across the country, you have to have a reflection that people can see themselves in.

As one of the national organizers of the Women's March back in 2017, immediately after the Women's March, over 20,000 women across the country had registered to run for office - the largest numbers we've seen in probably our entire American history for women to run in this way.

Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community. It is not to assimilate and please any other people and authority.

The way you raise the profile of an issue is by making the issue cool and relevant in pop culture.

I believe that this is the land of religious freedom and that that applies to Muslims. And if I have to make it apply to Muslims with the work that I do, I'm going to do that.

People see whatever the media first reports.

As an activist, organizer, Palestinian, and a Muslim-American woman, I have faced many obstacles in the industry I work in. I often have to fight for my seat and representation for the communities I represent.

I'm impacted by my women's reproductive rights.