Harvey Milk

Hope will never be silent.

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.

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

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.

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

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.

I’m essentially agnostic. I don’t have a problem with God. I have a problem with religion. I’ve chosen to live my life without the certainties of religious faith. I think they’re dangerous. Music is something that gives my life value and spiritual solace.

In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Perhaps the most spiritual thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with the eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.

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

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.