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A few Harvey Milk quotes
“And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant on television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right.” – Harvey Milk, “The Hope Speech,” March 10th, 1978
"My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you." – Harvey Milk, “The Hope Speech,” March 10th, 1978
"It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions." - Harvey Milk, in a 1973 speech during his first unsuccessful run for supervisor
"I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it." - Harvey Milk, in his 1973 concession speech
"Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street." - Harvey Milk, from his 1973 campaign speech
"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, after winning a seat on the Board of Supervisors in 1977
"If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward." - Harvey Milk, quoted in The San Francisco Chronicle
February 2012
