Harvey Milk Quotes

Hope will never be silent. – Harvey Milk

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

You must come out. Come out to your parents, your relatives. – Harvey Milk

It takes no compromise to give people their rights. – Harvey Milk

You have to give them hope. – Harvey Milk

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

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets. – Harvey Milk

Politics is theater. It doesn’t matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, ‘I’m here, pay attention to me. – Harvey Milk

I ask for the movement to continue because my election was not mine alone. – Harvey Milk

All men are created equal. No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words. – Harvey Milk

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. – Harvey Milk

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. – Harvey Milk

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion! – Harvey Milk

If you aren’t personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities… the expression of love… then life itself loses its meaning. – Harvey Milk

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

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. – Harvey Milk

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

You don’t live on hope, you live on actions. – Harvey Milk

People are too busy putting labels on themselves and others to really give a shit about what’s going on with you. – Harvey Milk

It’s not my victory, it’s yours and yours and yours. – Harvey Milk

Unless you have dialogue, unless you open the walls of dialogue, you can never reach to change people’s opinion. – Harvey Milk

Gay brothers and sisters,… You must come out. Come out… to your parents… I know that it is hard and will hurt them but think about how they will hurt you in the voting booth! – Harvey Milk

You’ve gotta have hope. Hope is what keeps us going. – Harvey Milk

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

You have to give them hope. – Harvey Milk

I want to be remembered as a human being, as a good human being. – Harvey Milk

I would like to be remembered as a ‘human rights activist’ for generations, and for people to be treated fairly regardless of their sexuality. – Harvey Milk

Hope is never silent. – Harvey Milk

If we keep telling the same story, if we keep presenting the same truth, we can break down those walls. – Harvey Milk

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

You gotta give ’em hope. – Harvey Milk

We’ve got to realize that this is not just about homosexuals, it’s about every other minority that is voiceless.” – Harvey Milk

It’s not just the queers we have to deal with, it’s the shifty-eyed foreigners too.” – Harvey Milk

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

Without hope, life is not worth living. – Harvey Milk

I ask for the movement to continue because my election was not mine alone. It was ours together. 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

I come out here today with a simple message: Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights. – Harvey Milk

My name is Harvey Milk and I’m here to recruit you. – Harvey Milk

A gay person can be a savior of the universe if they just get out there and live their life. – Harvey Milk

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

Every gay person must come out. As difficult as the process may be, as intimidating as the image of the world outside may be, it is nonetheless an act of great importance. It is the most political thing you can do. – Harvey Milk

I can not prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they’ll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects … I hope that every professional gay will say ‘enough’, come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help. – Harvey Milk

I know 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

You have to give people hope and a vision of a brighter future. – Harvey Milk

You’ve got to hit them at their foundations, at their power structure. The power structure is also the closet. – Harvey Milk