If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings ... for it takes no money ... It takes no compromising to give the people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

Never take an elevator in city hall.

Out of the bars and into the streets!

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your neighbors... to your fellow workers... to the people who work where you eat and shop... break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared.

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