Harvey Milk Quotes

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

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• Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • Way
  • Understanding

• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• Nobody's ever wanted to start a fight. I stay away from all that stuff.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fight
  • Start
  • Nobody

• The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Canada

• It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Dog
  • Fight
  • Size

• It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Fight
  • Islam
  • Crusade

• If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fight

• 2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Character
  • Party
  • Fight

• Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Man
  • Beginning
  • Sports

• The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Together
  • Age
  • Dream

• Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Fight
  • Once

• I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Fight
  • Against
  • Gang

• I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Fight

• You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Work
  • Fight
  • Harder

• I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Child
  • Find
  • Fight

• I try to perform honestly during the fight, and I always remember that I'm a representative of Russia. I try not to bring any aggression. Just honesty.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Remember
  • Fight
  • Honesty

• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Fight

• Her questions about whether Palmer would have raped her if she hadn’t been taking a forbidden bath on the job, if she’d remembered to lock the bathroom door, if she had tried to fight despite his knife—all her secret worry that it was these mistakes, her mistakes, that had caused her rape—were revealed to her as utter and total bullshit. If she’d been strutting down the street buck-naked, he didn’t have a right to touch her. No. If that woman across the street told her husband he was the worst fuck in history and gave him dog food for dinner, he didn’t have a right to hit her. No. Just because women were blamed for everything but good luck didn’t give nobody a right to do them wrong. And it didn’t mean they were supposed to take it when they were done wrong. All this woman-hurting shit had to stop. “Stop!”

  

  BarbaraNeely
  • Job
  • Fight
  • Secret

• Exercise is labor without weariness.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Exercise
  • Labor
  • Fitness

• There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • World
  • Heart
  • Reward

• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Job
  • Age
  • Interesting

• We have before us the examples of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. We must remember how long these required to achieve their union. When a solid foundation is laid, if the mason is able and his materials good, a strong house can be built.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Good
  • Long
  • Remember

• Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

  

  Harvey Milk
  • Fight
  • Closet doors