Linda Sarsour

“Look, yes, I'm a Muslim woman and I want to bring my community to the table, but I also want to make sure that I'm not being tokenized.”

“I have my own support network of other organizers, activists, and attorneys.”

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

“I care about affordable housing. I care about bus routes. I care about small business. I care about schools. These are not Muslim issues. Even protection of civil rights - that's not just a Muslim issue. That is for everyone.”

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

“It just doesn't make any sense for someone to say, 'Is there room for people who support the state of Israel and do not criticize it in the movement?' There can't be in feminism. You either stand up for the rights of all women, including Palestinians, or none. There's just no way around it.”

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

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

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

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and I intend to continue to push my country to respect the rights of all its citizens. I will not be silenced.”

“You can't be a feminist in the United States and stand up for the rights of the American woman and then say that you don't want to stand up for the rights of Palestinian women in Palestine. It's all connected.”

“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 just a token Muslim.”

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

“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.”

“We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups. The fact that this is only directed at the Muslim community is something that I personally can't accept.”

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

“I get to say I was alive when the first Palestinian woman went to Congress. I was alive when the first Somali woman, in a hijab, who's black and Muslim - she's literally an immigrant, a refugee, black and Muslim and a woman and progressive.”