We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance

Women's March co-organizer Linda Sarsour shares how growing up Palestinian Muslim American, feminist, and empowered moved her to become a globally recognized and celebrated activist on behalf of marginalized communities across the country.

It was a chilly spring morning in Brooklyn when a nineteen-year-old Linda Sarsour stared at her reflection, dressed in a hijab for the first time.

A reflection that showed her as the woman she was growing to be-unapologetic in her faith and her activism.

A young Muslim-American woman who would discover her innate sense of justice in the aftermath of 9/11.

Now heralded for her award-wining leadership of the Women's March on Washington, in We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders Linda Sarsour offers a poignant story of community and family.

From the Brooklyn bodega her father owned, where Linda learned the real meaning of intersectionality, to protests in the streets of Washington, DC, Linda's story as a daughter of Palestinian immigrants is a moving portrayal of what it means to find one's voice and use it for the good of others.

We follow Linda as she learns the tenets of successful community organizing, and through decades of fighting for racial, economic, gender, and social justice as she becomes one of the most recognized activists in the nation.

We also see her honoring her grandmother's dying wish, protecting her children, building resilient friendships, and mentoring others even as she loses her first mentor in a tragic accident.

We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders will inspire you to take action as it reaffirms that we are not here to be bystanders.

In his foreword to the book, Harry Belafonte writes of Linda, While we may not have made it to the Promised Land, my peers and I, my brothers and sisters in liberation can rest easy that the future is in the hands of leaders like Linda Sarsour.

I have often said to Linda that she embodies the principle and purpose of another great Muslim leader, brother Malcolm X.

This is her story.