Patience Quotes

The hardest virtue. Waiting, enduring, and trusting that things take the time they take.

17396 quotes

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"Patience is a virtue of the strong, not the weak."
Assata Shakur
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"The system that oppresses us was not built in a day."
Stokely Carmichael
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"Patience with systems of oppression is a form of complicity."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Patience is not a virtue; it is a strategy."
Andrea Dworkin
"The struggle for freedom knows no shortcuts."
Black Panther Party
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"Patience is not passivity; it is strategic timing."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Patience is not weakness; it is strategy."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Patience with ourselves allows us to persist in the long struggle."
Assata Shakur
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"Patience is a difficult master, but its lesson is invaluable."
John Lewis
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"Patience with injustice is complicity."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Patience is a virtue that keeps the oppressed oppressed."
Stokely Carmichael
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"Patient organizing is more effective than quick fixes."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Patience with injustice is betrayal."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Patience is the virtue of the powerful."
Germaine Greer
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"Patience with injustice is complicity with injustice."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Patience is about trusting the process"
bell hooks
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"Patience is not passivity; it is strategic."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Patience is a spiritual practice that deepens our capacity for love."
bell hooks
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"Patience with injustice is patience with harm; it is not a virtue."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Patience is not passivity; it is strategic endurance."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Patience is a virtue demanded of the powerless; the powerful can afford to be impatient."
Shulamith Firestone
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"To truly listen is to be changed by what we hear."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"To practice intersectionality is to practice humility about what we don't know."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"We must be willing to complicate our own complicity in systems of oppression."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"The patient woman is the one patriarchy rewards with crumbs."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Patience is the practice of trusting in the unfolding of our lives."
bell hooks
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"Patience with oppressive systems is not a virtue but a form of complicity."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Patience is not passive, it is active endurance."
Barbara Smith
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"Patience is a virtue that brings peace."
Barbara Smith
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"We are not born hating, but rather taught to fear difference"
bell hooks