“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.”

American political activist

Linda Sarsour is an American political activist known for her leadership in the Women’s March movement. She was born in 1980 and has been a visible voice in activism around civic rights and public protest. She served as co-chair of the 2017 Women’s March, the 2017 Day Without a Woman, and the 2019 Women’s March. She also served as executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. In 2017, she and her fellow Women’s March co-chairs were featured in Time 100.