Harvey Milk Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

  Inspiring, Gay, Equality

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.73, Univ of California Press

• It takes no compromise to give people their rights

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Rights, People

• 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

  Giving, Ems, Life Is

  The Times of Harvey Milk, www.imdb.com. 1984.

• 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.

  Harvey Milk

  Phones, People, Giving

  Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination as quoted in Randy Shilts "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" (p. 277), 1982.

• 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

  Rights, San Francisco, Numbers

• 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

  Kids, Gay, Years

• 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.

  Harvey Milk

  Giving Up, Games, Play

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