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.

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 I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.

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

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me

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