Linda Sarsour Quotes

I want to make sure we have elected people constantly looking at helping the African-American community.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

If I never do anything else in this career as a member of Congress, I'm gonna make somebody pay for what they've done to my community and to my people!

The people need someone who's closer to them and the American people need someone who will be their change agent and fight for the issues that are important to them.

We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let's get more gay black men; let's get more trans women.

My priority has always been listening and understanding the voices of those I represent, and I work every day to address the concerns people have for their families.

We have to pick up people's issues within and outside Parliament and give a voice to their pain and problems and come across as a party which understands this.

We on the Left are very good at criticizing people, but we need to build the base to pull people to the Left.

It's going very different for citizens of Chicago to know that they have an advocate in the mayor's office - getting rid of the 'us versus them,' the lack of investment in our neighborhoods, the feeling that the only thing that matters is if you're a campaign donor.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.

I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation.

I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.

Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

People of color and women are increasingly being shown on-screen. For things to be whitewashed just doesn't make sense.

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people.

We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.