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.

— Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk Quotes

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

— Harvey Milk

It takes no compromise to give people their rights.

— Harvey Milk

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

— Harvey Milk

If I do a good job, people won’t care if I am green or have three heads.

— Harvey Milk

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

— 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

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

— Harvey Milk

I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed with themselves.

— Harvey Milk

Never take an elevator in city hall.

— Harvey Milk

Coming out is the most political thing you can do.

— Harvey Milk

The American Dream starts with the neighborhoods.

— Harvey Milk

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you’d sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

— 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

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

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.

— Harvey Milk

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

— Harvey Milk

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

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

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

— Harvey Milk

Out of the bars and into the streets!

— Harvey Milk
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