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.

Harvey Milk

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

Harvey Milk

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

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, is true perversion.

Harvey Milk

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

Harvey Milk

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

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.

Harvey Milk

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

Harvey Milk

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

Harvey Milk

All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

Harvey Milk

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.

Harvey Milk

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.

Harvey Milk