Top 50 Linda Sarsour Quotes

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?

Dan Donovan was the district attorney at one point who could not indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, who choked Eric Garner on video, for the whole country to watch, for the whole world to watch. And he actually, immediately after that, won a seat in Congress. He beat a Democrat to get into Congress.

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

Jared Kushner is the last person that should be trying to bring peace to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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.

Minister Farrakhan absolutely says anti-Semitic, misogynistic and homophobic remarks. And we have unequivocally rejected all forms of racism and hate, including anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, etc.

There is no country in this world that is immune to violating human rights.

I am the most optimistic organizer in this country.

I’m the national co-chair for the Women’s March on Washington.

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

Wearing hijab made you know that I was Muslim.

The progressive Left is sometimes very uncomfortable for staunch pro-Israel supporters, but what’s very clear to me is that the progressive Left does not make Jews feel unsafe.

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

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.

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.

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.

My Pandora station is Boyz II Men.

I’ve been working with Jews for over 20 years.

We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.

Alleviating suffering of the most marginalized communities must begin with assessing the needs of entire communities and allowing the most marginalized to lead the strategy. My belief is those closest to the pain are closest to the solution.

My family is originally from Palestine, who came here to the United States, you know, from an occupied land to find a better life and find security and safety.

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

We are rooted in Kingian nonviolence.

When I stand up here, and I’m fighting for your rights and the rights of all people in these United States of America, I am a true patriot.

I’m not going to hide my positions to make anyone else feel comfortable.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 will continue to organize. You have seen consistent organizing since the Women’s March on Washington in every corner of this country.

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.

We are taught to attack the forces of evil and not those doing evil. That is what we are trained in.

I began my work as director of the Arab American Association of New York in the wake of the horrific attacks of 9/11.

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.’

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

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.

People see whatever the media first reports.

We show up to fight racism, anti-black racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, anti-Semitism, because after Donald Trump is out of office, there will still be all those things here.

There are no perfect leaders.

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.

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.

We, as Palestinian-Americans… will not change who we are to make anyone comfortable.

My work has always been rooted in nonviolence, as espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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.