Harvey Milk Quotes

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• If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses…
• Every gay person must come out.... Once they realize we are indeed their children, we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will…
• We don't want sympathetic liberals, we want gays to represent gays... I represent the gay street people-the 14-year-old runaway from San Antonio. We have to…
• Coming out is the most political thing you can do
• All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is…
• Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.
• To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and…
• I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads — fiercely heterosexual.…
• I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.
• Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.
• I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the…
• If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.
• I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target…
• The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.
• I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into…
• I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement...last week I got a…
• It takes no compromise to give people their rights
• If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.
• I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.
• Out of the bars and into the streets!

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