Harvey Milk Quotes
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Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.
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If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
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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 phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope...
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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 something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects I hope that every professional gay will say 'enough', come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help.
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If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.
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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 for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed with themselves.
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All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.
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To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.
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It'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.
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We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.
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Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.
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Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.
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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 doing his job.