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Harvey Milk Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“Unless you have dialogue, unless you open the walls of dialogue, you can never reach to change people’s opinion.”
— Harvey Milk, Transcript: Hear Harvey Milk's The Hope Speech
Tagged: gay rights, United States Politics, Speeches
“A gay person in office can set a tone, can command respect, not only from the larger community, but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope.”
— Harvey Milk, Transcript: Hear Harvey Milk's The Hope Speech
Tagged: gay rights, United States Politics, Speeches, Leadership, Elected Officials
“And the time has come when the gay community must not be judged for our criminals and our myths. Like every other group, we must be judged by our leaders and by those who are themselves gay, those who are visible.”
— Harvey Milk, Transcript: Hear Harvey Milk's The Hope Speech
Tagged: gay rights, United States Politics, Speeches, Leadership
“I will never forget what it was like coming out and having nobody to look up toward.”
— Harvey Milk, Transcript: Hear Harvey Milk's The Hope Speech
Tagged: gay rights, United States Politics, Speeches, Leadership, Elected Officials
“So if there’s a message I have to give, it is that I found one overriding thing about my personal election. It’s the fact that if a gay person can be elected, it’s a green light.”
— Harvey Milk, Transcript: Hear Harvey Milk's The Hope Speech
Tagged: gay rights, United States Politics, Speeches, Leadership, Elected Officials
“The first gay people we elect must be strong. They must not be content to sit in the back of the bus. They must not be content to accept pabulum.”
— Harvey Milk, Transcript: Hear Harvey Milk's The Hope Speech
Tagged: gay rights, United States Politics, Speeches, Leadership, Elected Officials
“Without hope, life's not worth living.”
— Harvey Milk, Milk
Tagged: Hope, Life
“My name is Harvey Milk, and I’m here to recruit you.”
— Harvey Milk, Transcript: Hear Harvey Milk's The Hope Speech
Tagged: gay rights, United States Politics, Speeches
“Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really.”
— Harvey Milk, An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings
Tagged: Forever With You
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