Quote of the Day

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

-- Harvey Milk, from a tape recording to be played in the event of his assassination

Quote of the Day

A gay person in office can set a tone, command respect, not only from the wider community but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope.

-- Harvey Milk, The Little Book of Pride: Love Is Love, p. 103

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Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

-- Harvey Milk

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Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

-- Harvey Milk

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More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason.  That, my friends, that is true perversion.

-- Harvey Milk

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
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Quote of the Day

Somewheres in Des Moines or San Antonio there is a young gay person who all of a sudden realizes that she or he is gay.  And that child has several options: staying in the closet; suicide.  And then one day that child might open a paper that says "Homosexual elected in San Francisco" and there are two new options: the option is to go to California, or stay in San Antonio and fight.

-- Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk:

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.