Shaun King Quotes

Fuck the Congress. Send the stuff now!

The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.

You may delay, but time will not.

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

Impatience is a virtue.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

Don't be so foolish as to ask for more time: calamities will not wait.

The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.

I'm very impatient.

My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.

Do something, Congress. Do anything.

Let's go, Kitten, before you kill someone else. -Bones

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

"When are we going to get going?" Chris says. "What's your hurry?" I ask. "I just want to get going." "There's nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here."

You have to be patient. I'm not!

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.

I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Waiting on the World to Change.

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.