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Hope is never silent.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
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Hope will never be silent.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Hope
Adversity
Hopeful
Positive Energy
Silent
Will
Never
Hope Will Never
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Never take an elevator in city hall.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Adversity
Cities
City Hall
Elevators
Elevator
Hall
Never Take
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Out of the bars and into the streets!
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Bars
Streets
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Coming out is the most political thing you can do
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Coming Out
Political
Positive Energy
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The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Dream
American Dream
Neighborhood
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It takes no compromise to give people their rights
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Gay
People
Rights
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Coming out is the most political thing you can do.
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Coming
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My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Harvey
Milk
Recruit
Name
Here
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Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Heard
Rights
Voice
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Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Freedom
Closets
Doors
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Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Call Me
Mayors
People
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I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Cute
Smile
Boys
Watches
Window
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We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Closets
Rights
Winning
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I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Tasted
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Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Break
Dialogue
Prejudice
Starting
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If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Jobs
Good Job
Green
People
Three
Heads
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How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Change People Know
Change People Change People
Minds
People Change
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If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Cities
Firsts
Wish
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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Brain
Should
Bullet
Every
Closet
Destroy
Door
Enter
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I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Involved
Shut Up
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I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Forget
Never Forget
Important People Will
Buildings
People Important Will
Personally
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Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Doors
Fighting
Gay
Burst
Closet
Stand Up
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I will never forget what it was like coming out and having nobody to look up toward.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Forget
Never Forget
Nobody
Coming
Toward
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Give me your support, and I'll fight for you... I'll fight for you because I am you.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Give Me
Fight I Am Me
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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Doors
Gay
Lgbt Pride
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If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Running
Teacher
Children
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Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Attention
Pay
Winning
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Walking
Walks
Want
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Men
America
Trying
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I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Individual
Individual Rights
Rights
Stand
Longer
Respects
Understands
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Ems
Giving
Life Is
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More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Perversion
More People
Slaughtered
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It 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
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Equality
Inspiring
Respect
Money
Gay
Individual
Remove
Rights
Compromising
Give
Survey
Takes
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Jobs
Country
Gay
Reading
Center
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All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Motivational
Gay
People
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Facts
Names
People
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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!
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Hurt
Voting
Booth
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Small Business
Business Government People
Supervisor
Thousands Of People
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Being Yourself
Expression
Gay
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Gay
Silence
Tired
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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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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Fighting
Gay
Mean
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Respect
Command
Community
Gay
Office
Tone
Set
Examples
Larger
Young People
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Quality
Cities
Quality Of Life
Wish
Neighborhoods
Standard
Rebuild
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Children
Gay
Lying
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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.
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Bus
Be Strong
Dealing
Elect
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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.
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Home
Independence
Reading
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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.
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Gay
Workers
Assumed
Discover
Entire
Fellow
Generally
Neighbors
Stereotypes
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Games
Giving Up
Play
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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.
Harvey Milk
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Former San Francisco Supervisor
Businessman
Customers
Taxes
Earnings
Exactly What
Forced
Prices
Spiral
Uncertainties
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