Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your neighbors... to your fellow workers... to the people who work where you eat and shop... break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared.

Harvey Milk

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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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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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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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Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends if indeed they are your friends. You must tell the people you work with. You must tell the people in the stores you shop in. Once they realize that we are indeed their children, that we are indeed everywhere, every myth, every lie, every innuendo will be destroyed once and all. And once you do, you will feel so much better

Harvey Milk

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

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

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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.

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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

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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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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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Hope will never be silent.

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Lets make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neigborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must

Harvey Milk

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

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

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San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings ... for it takes no money ... It takes no compromising to give the people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

Harvey Milk

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It takes no compromise to give people their rights

Harvey Milk

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We don't want sympathetic liberals, we want gays to represent gays... I represent the gay street people-the 14-year-old runaway from San Antonio. We have to make up for hundreds of years of persecution. We have to give hope to that poor runaway kid from San Antonio. They go to the bars because churches are hostile. They need hope! They need a piece of the pie!

Harvey Milk

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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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