What’s wrong is wrong, and that’s absolutely acceptable, and I understand that people get hurt by things that people say that are hurtful, and we should be able to say that when someone says something that hurts us, that it hurts us. Linda Sarsour Read Quote
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.’ Linda Sarsour Read Quote
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. Linda Sarsour Read Quote
None of us live single-issue lives… That is why intersectionality is a strength, not a weakness. Linda Sarsour Read Quote
It is powerful to know what it feels like to be in community with people who will show up and fight for each other. Linda Sarsour Read Quote
I was on the steering committee of the New York City Coalition on Muslim School Holidays. Linda Sarsour Read Quote
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. Linda Sarsour Read Quote
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. Linda Sarsour Read Quote
Americans – in general, we are very steadfast people: we know what we want; we get what we want. Linda Sarsour Read Quote
