Linda Sarsour Quotes

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.

I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

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

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

Things like the Women's March have been just so encouraging, and I'd like to see that continue.

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

Social change comes through people.

It is not leaders who make movements; it is movements that make leaders.

People don't stay mobilized.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

Collective action is a means of power, a means by which individuals can more fully realize their individual values.

All across the country, the Women's March inspired doctors and teachers and mothers to become activists and organizers and, yes, candidates for office.

The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be heard.

I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.

I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now.

The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I'm so happy to see the spirit because I haven't seen it like that since the Civil Rights Movement.

I am a fighter. I appeal to all the women in the world. Look around, speak up.

The difference between a mob and a movement is follow-through.