Linda Sarsour Quotes

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe.'

Often, those with the most to lose as a result of a poor policy move are the most vulnerable and most marginalized. Those folks need a voice, and I will endeavor to be that voice.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

We do not yet have justice, equal and practical, for the poor, for the members of minority groups, for the criminally accused, for the displaced persons of the technological revolution, for alienated youth, for the urban masses, for the unrepresented consumer – for all … who do not partake of the abundance of American life.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

Many of the ideas that accompany privilege talk, if implemented, would wreak havoc on human wellbeing. If people truly acknowledged their privilege, they would show a greater concern for the forces behind it, which permit them to lead long, healthy, educated, leisure-filled lives, all the while incessantly complaining about the unadulterated evils of modern civilization.

We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.

People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

Only when we recognise our privilege, we will be able to make a change for others.

That is just the reality of being a marginalized person in this country: you have to deal with the psychological impact of your oppressor - whether that's being a woman dealing with men or gay people dealing with straight people or trans people dealing with everybody else.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.

I hate systemic oppression in America.

I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as exclusively about race. To my mind, it was more about telling stories of people who existed outside the mainstream's field of vision. Invisible people.

Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.

Until we address the pervasive structural and interpersonal threats facing communities of color, we will remain unequipped to make equity a reality.

There are people who get to be three-dimensional humans in the United States, and there are people who do not.

I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

With any sort of minority, issues of ostracization or misrepresentation are clearly rampant. It's just so deeply rooted in our culture, and there are so many levels that it trickles down from.