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