Harvey Milk Quotes
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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.
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If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
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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.
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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.
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Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.
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Never take an elevator in city hall.
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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.
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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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Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.
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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.
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I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads — fiercely heterosexual. A society that puts down homosexuality. And why am I a homosexual if I'm affected by role models? I should have been a heterosexual. And no offense meant, but if teachers are going to affect you as role models, there'd be a lot of nuns running around the streets today.
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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.
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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.
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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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I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and my election gave somebody else, one more person, hope. And after all, that's what this is all about. It's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power - it's about giving those young people out there in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias, hope. You gotta give them hope.
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Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life.
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I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.
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It takes no compromise to give people their rights
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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.
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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.
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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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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 understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.
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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.
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If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.
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Hope will never be silent.
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I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.
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Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.
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Hope is never silent.
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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.
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The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.
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Harvey Milk
- Born: May 22, 1930
- Died: November 27, 1978
- Occupation: Former San Francisco Supervisor
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