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We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

Harvey Milk

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Harvey Milk
Age: 48 †
Born: 1930
Born: May 22
Died: 1978
Died: November 27
Former San Francisco Supervisor
Human Rights Activist
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Naval Officer
Politician
Woodmere
New York
Harvey Bernard Milk
Closets
Quietly
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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.
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I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.
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