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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.
Harvey Milk -
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.
Harvey Milk
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I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and my election gave somebody else, one more person, hope. And after all, that's what this is all about. It's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power - it's about giving those young people out there in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias, hope. You gotta give them hope.
Harvey Milk -
We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.
Harvey Milk -
Hope will never be silent.
Harvey Milk -
If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
Harvey Milk -
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.
Harvey Milk -
Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.
Harvey Milk
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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.
Harvey Milk -
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.
Harvey Milk -
All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.
Harvey Milk -
Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.
Harvey Milk -
If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.
Harvey Milk