53 result(s) for Harvey Milk Quotes.
"The only thing they have to look forward to is hope."
"We must destroy to rebuild. Let us rage against our oppression; let us defy their power; let us challenge their values; let us picket and speak and strike."
"I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink."
"I ask this, that in the weekly, the papers, they put affirmatively gay articles, affirmatively gay articles in the paper. That is not too much to ask."
"I am here to recruit you. I want you to join us. I want to issue a call to you. I want to leave this off with a challenge to you."
"I have never considered my a candidate. I have always considered myself part of a movement, part of a candidacy."
"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."
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"You have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow."
"It's like grass. You don't get satisfaction from an individual blade of grass, but there is something satisfying about a whole field of grass."
"Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us'es, the us'es will give up."
"I can't 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."
"I have never considered myself a candidate. I have always considered myself part of a movement, part of a candidacy."
"We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets."
"It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions."
"You've got to have hope. You've got to give them hope."
"It takes no compromise to give people their rights."
"We are here to change the world for every American, no matter who they are."
"It takes no compromising to give people their rights... it takes no money to respect the individual."
"I ask this... If there should be an assassination, I would hope that five, ten, one hundred, a thousand would rise. I would like to see every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out. If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door."
"Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say I'm here, pay attention to me."
"I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted."
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"Hope is never silent."
"Rights are won by those who make their voices heard."
"The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it."
"I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living."
"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."
"The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great."
"You cannot live on hope alone, but without hope, life is not worth living. You must give them hope."
"It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours."
"You have to give people something to dream on."
"You have to give them hope."
"All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words."
"You gotta give them hope."
"And this is how the guardians of our safety are often watchful with our thoughts."
"All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential."
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"Hope will never be silent."
"All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment."
"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!"
"It takes no compromise to give people their rights... it takes no money to respect the individual."
"You've got to have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less."
"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."
"Rights are not won in the court of public opinion."
"All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about."
"Let them have their beauty...there is a lot in the world for everyone."
"It's not my job to be Pollyanna. It's my job to recognize the realities in which we live."
"I ask this... If there should happen to be an assassination... I ask to be killed to be killed....at close range."
"Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard."
"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door."
"The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods."
"I am not here to be used. I am not a punching bag. I am here to serve the people."
"Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight."
"Gay brothers and sisters,... 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!"
"Sometimes it is the small victories, the small spaces to exist in this vast world, that matter the most."
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