Harvey MilkAll men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.321Humanity
Harvey MilkIf a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country. ✨ Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassinat… ▶343LifeThoughtTime
Harvey MilkIf I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.367Time
Harvey MilkIf I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.379Humanity
Harvey MilkComing out is the most political thing you can do313Politics
Harvey MilkIt takes no compromise to give people their rights358Humanity
Harvey MilkI fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afr… ▶281Reflection
Harvey MilkI have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of the… ▶3710Politics
Harvey MilkNever take an elevator in city hall.3710Politics
Harvey MilkIt takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions. ✨ Harvey Milk (2013). An Archive… ▶303HopeHumanity
Harvey MilkEvery gay person must come out.... Once they realize we are indeed their children, we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will be destroyed once and for a… ▶359Humanity
Harvey MilkI 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 phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice… ▶283HopeTime
Harvey MilkRights are won only by those who make their voices heard.272Love
Harvey MilkHope will never be silent.261Hope
Harvey MilkThe fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion. ✨ Need More Proof Bei… ▶317HumanityHumorTruth
Harvey MilkWe 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 make up for hundreds o… ▶339HopeHumanityTime
Harvey MilkLet me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protec… ▶3310HumanityLife
Harvey MilkIt's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight. We've given them hope.274Hope
Harvey MilkEvery gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends if indeed they are your friend… ▶276Humanity
Harvey MilkThe American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. ✨ Harvey Milk (2013). An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings, p.32, Univ of California Press276Hope
Harvey MilkHope is never silent.221Hope
Harvey MilkI was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads — fiercely heterosexual. A society t… ▶288Humanity
Harvey MilkAll 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 doing his job.213Reading
Harvey MilkIf you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning. ✨ Harvey Milk (… ▶2610HopeHumanityLife
Harvey MilkBurst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.161Love
Harvey MilkI know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope. ✨ The Times of Harvey Milk, www.imdb.c… ▶2210HopeLifeTime
Harvey MilkI like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.164Death
Harvey MilkPolitics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, I'm here, pay attention to me177Politics
Harvey MilkSome people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.157Humanity
Harvey MilkAll young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.136Humanity
