It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight. We've given them hope.

I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything was done with an eye on the GLBT movement...last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and the voice was young, my election gave one more young person, hope

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.

Hope is never silent.