Linda Sarsour Quotes

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.

Society of the Friends of Blacks

In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry. In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write.

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

Over 17 years, I took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly.

Black lives do matter, and our lives do hold value.

I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.

Black Lives Matter was born out of our unwavering love for black people and our undeniable rage over a system that has historically dehumanized black people.

Everybody remember, Black Lives Matter.

I want all of the work that I do to have a social justice footprint attached. I want it to move the needle forward when it comes to the perception of all people, but especially people of color.

The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned all kinds of activism.

We need to fight for a new human rights movement that recognizes and values black life.

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

It's true, black lives do matter. It's not that we're saying no other lives matter.

I am going to fight for important things.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.