Top 44 Milk Harvey Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Out of the bars and into the streets!

Harvey Milk

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

Harvey Milk

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#4. Hope will never be silent.

Harvey Milk

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#5. I know you can't live on hope alone; but without hope, life is not worth living. So you, and you and you: you got to give them hope; you got to give them hope.

Harvey Milk

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#6. 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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#7. In New York now, they have Harvey Milk High School for gay students. They don't have much of a football team, but the half-time show ...

Bill Maher

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

Harvey Milk

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#9. Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

Harvey Milk

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#10. It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

Harvey MacKay

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#11. 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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#12. The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.

Harvey MacKay

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#13. 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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#14. Hope is never silent.

Harvey Milk

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#15. I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.

Margaret Cho

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#16. Coming out is the most political thing you can do.

Harvey Milk

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you.

Harvey Milk

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#20. 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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#21. Never take an elevator in city hall.

Harvey Milk

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#22. 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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#23. I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

Harvey Milk

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#24. 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

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

Harvey Milk

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#26. If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

Harvey Milk

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

Harvey Milk

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

Harvey Milk

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#29. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

Harvey Milk

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#30. Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Harvey Milk

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#32. The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

Harvey Milk

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#33. You get that air of satisfaction from achievement. It makes you feel good. We are only here for a very short time, and so you're crazy if you don't go out and try to milk it to the greatest extent you can.

Gerry Harvey

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#34. I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement ... last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope

Harvey Milk

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#35. 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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#36. 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!

Harvey Milk

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#37. Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

Harvey Milk

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#38. 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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#39. 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

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#40. 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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#41. It takes no compromise to give 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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#42. 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.

Harvey Milk

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#43. 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

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#44. I would like to see every gay doctor come out, every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out, stand up and let that world know. That would do more to end prejudice overnight than anybody would I urge them to do that, urge them to come out. Only that way will we start to achieve our rights.

Harvey Milk

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