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Hope is never silent.
Hope will never be silent.
Never take an elevator in city hall.
Out of the bars and into the streets!
Coming out is the most political thing you can do
The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.
It takes no compromise to give people their rights
Coming out is the most political thing you can do.
My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you.
Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.
Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.
Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.
I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.
We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.
I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.
Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.
If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.
How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?
If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.
I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings.
Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.
I will never forget what it was like coming out and having nobody to look up toward.
Give me your support, and I'll fight for you... I'll fight for you because I am you.
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.
If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me
If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.
All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.
I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.
I 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.
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
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.
All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.
The 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.
You must come out. Come out... to your parents... I know that it is hard and will hurt them, but think about how they will hurt you in the voting booth!
Having a small business and being one of thousands of people whom no one in government will listen to, I have decided to run for supervisor as a person.
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 its meaning.
We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it.
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.
A gay person in office can set a tone, can command respect not only from the larger community but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope.
If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.
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 be destroyed once and for all.
The first gay people we elect must be strong. They must not be content to sit in the back of the bus. They must not be content to accept pablum. They must be above wheeling and dealing.
A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.
If every gay person were to come out only to his/her own family, friends, neighbors and fellow workers, within days the entire state would discover that we are not the stereotypes generally assumed.
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 political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it.
I'm a small businessman and I'm well aware of the uncertainties of the economy, exactly what the 'inflationary spiral' means when I'm forced to raise prices to my customers, and how taxes can eat into your earnings.