A biography for Linda Sarsourhasn’t been written yet.
“It is powerful to know what it feels like to be in community with people who will show up and fight for each other.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you're on the side of the oppressor, or you're defending the oppressor, or you're actually trying to humanize the oppressor, then that's a problem.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think Bernie Sanders is a realist.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I haven't given up on my country. I believe in the potential. I believe in the Constitution.”
“Intersectional organizing is the new agenda. And if we're gonna lose, we're gonna lose together. If we win, we're gonna win together.”
“I'm impacted by my women's reproductive rights.”
“We, as Palestinian-Americans... will not change who we are to make anyone comfortable.”
“I've been working with Jews for over 20 years.”
“I'm a Palestinian-Muslim, but I'm also a progressive.”
“We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.”
“Jared Kushner is the last person that should be trying to bring peace to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.”
“You've probably seen that any visible Palestinian-American woman who is at the forefront of any social-justice movement is an immediate target of the right wing and right-wing Zionists. They will go to any extreme to criminalize us and to engage in alternative facts, to sew together a narrative that does not exist.”
“We are rooted in Kingian nonviolence.”
“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.”