75 Quotes by Harvey Milk

Coming out is the most political thing you can do.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.