Quotes from Harvey Milk

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.

I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings.

I will never forget what it was like coming out and having nobody to look up toward.

Never take an elevator in city hall.

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

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.

Hope will never be silent.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

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

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

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.