Harvey Milk

Hope will never be silent.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights … it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give them freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

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.

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

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Faith is one of the most effective tools in the human equipment. I believe that faith works.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize in our own being, we are enough.