Harvey Milk Quotes

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

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.

Hope will never be silent.

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.

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 finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

Hope is never silent.

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.

Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

Never take an elevator in city hall.

If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.

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 we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

Out of the bars and into the streets!

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone but that life is not worth living without it.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!