Harvey Milk

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

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

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!

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.

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

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Don’t count the things you do, do the things that count.

Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

If you don’t get out there and try to solve your own problems, it’s never going to change.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

There is no dream you can’t achieve. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Thought is useful when it motivates for action, and a hindrance when it substitutes for action.

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

Some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable.

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot have, but perseverance all can have.

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

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.