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

The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a bett...

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I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

Hope will never be silent.

It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that t...

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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single...

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Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must...

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Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay att...

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Let's make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods. If we wish to re...

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All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is w...

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The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words

It takes no compromise to give people their rights...it takes no money to respect the individual. It...

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Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And y...

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The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words

The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone but that life is not worth living without...

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It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. I...

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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single...

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Harvey Milk

Former San Francisco Supervisor

Born: 1930-05-22

Died: 1978-11-27

Harvey Bernard Milk (22 May 1930 – 27 November 1978) was an American politician and gay rights activist, and the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California. He was assassinated in 1978, and is commonly seen as a martyr to the LGBT community.More