Harvey Milk Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Harvey Milk

  Children, Lying, Gay

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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.

  Harvey Milk

  Tired, Gay, Silence

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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

  Kids, Gay, Years

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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.

  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.

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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.

  Harvey Milk

  Running, Teacher, Should Have

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• Coming out is the most political thing you can do

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  Political, Positive Energy, Coming Out

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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.

  Harvey Milk

  Home, Car, Worry

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

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  Cute, Boys, Watches

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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.

  Harvey Milk

  Believe, Color, Cities

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• 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

  Mean, Fighting, Gay

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

  Harvey Milk

  Jobs, People, Three

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• 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

  Country, Jobs, Reading

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• 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 imagine. I urge them to do that, urge them to come out. Only that way will we start to achieve our rights.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Doctors, Rights

  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" (pp. 276-277), 1982.

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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.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Insecure, Target

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• 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

  Reading, Home, Independence

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

  Harvey Milk

  Dream, American Dream, Neighborhood

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.32, Univ of California Press

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• Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

  Harvey Milk

  People, Mayors, Call Me

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• Never take an elevator in city hall.

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  Adversity, Cities, Elevators

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• Out of the bars and into the streets!

  Harvey Milk

  Bars, Streets

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.28, Univ of California Press

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• If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

  Harvey Milk

  Running, Teacher, Children

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