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"20 Harvey Milk Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 22 May 1930. Died: 27 November 1978 | Politician |

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

Compromising People Money Respect
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The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

More people Slaughtered Name Religion
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Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

Burst down Closet doors Stand up
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If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I’d be walking backward – and I don’t want to walk backward.

Turned around Faggot Walking backward
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I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.
Have tasted Freedom Give up
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If I do a good job, people won’t care if I am green or have three heads.

Do Good job Care Green
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Never take an elevator in city hall.

Never take Elevator
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All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential

Young people Sexual orientation Supportive environment
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If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities… the expression of love… then life itself loses its meaning.

Personally free Human activities Life
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Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

Rights Won Voice heard
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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.
Cannot live Hope alone Not worth
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All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

All men Created equal No matter Never erase
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Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door

Freedom Too enormous Slipped
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It takes no compromise to give people their rights.

No compromise Give people
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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

Sit Front steps Small town Concrete stoop
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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.

Truths Conspiracy Silence
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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.

My victory Yours Win Hope
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I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

Finally reached Point Involved Shut up
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Politics is theater. It doesn’t matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, “I’m here, pay attention to me.

Politics Theater Win Statement
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If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

We wish Rebuild Cities Neighborhoods
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Harvey Milk Quotes & Sayings