Harvey Milk

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

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.

Hope will never be silent.

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

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.

The fact that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

I’ve seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage – leverage being borrowed money. You really don’t need leverage in this world much. If you’re smart, you’re going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

If you are not willing to learn no one can help you. If you are determined to learn no one can stop you.

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

Now’s the best time you’ll ever have in life to get ahead!

I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!