Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Linda Sarsour - Page 2

Donald Trump has no idea what a deal is. I mean, he's a man who has filed for bankruptcy many times, so he doesn't understand how to make any deals.

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 have our own agency; we should be judged by our own work.

Americans - in general, we are very steadfast people: we know what we want; we get what we want.

My American side makes me fearless.

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

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

I wish that more of the celebrities, who are multi-millionaires, probably, are able to say to themselves, 'Wow, my communities are under attack, and I need to give back to my community.'

This idea of me being anti-Semitic is the most ludicrous of them all.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

It is powerful to know what it feels like to be in community with people who will show up and fight for each other.

I didn't wake up one morning and become some important person.

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

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

Wearing hijab made you know that I was Muslim.

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.

I believe in the liberation of the Palestinian people.

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 have a very resilient Brooklyn personality that allows me to stay thick-skinned and focused on my mission and goals.

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.'

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.

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.

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

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

People have been skeptical of the Women's March on Washington. Our legitimacy only came from us proving to the rest of the world that we're capable.

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.

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

I have no problem with people challenging my views and my positions. I want to be clear that I'm not asking anybody to stop challenging me. But I will not accept being called an anti-Semite.

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.

I'm not just a token Muslim.

I am the most optimistic organizer in this country.