FeedGot Hope? Harvey Milk 30th Anniversary
Written by NetBear on October 24, 2008 – 5:00 am -The San Francisco Chronicle has released a photo gallery tracing Harvey Milk’s rise in San Francisco politics alongside George Moscone, their murders by Dan White and the aftermath. There’s some great GLBT history there.
Harvey’s most recognized speech, “You Cannot Live On Hope Alone,” was given in 1978, shortly before he was assassinated. Dave O’Brien at CauseCast created a stirring animated clip based on those famous words.
And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant in television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope.
And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right.
Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us’es, the us’es will give up.
And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward.
It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.
Inspiring words from a great man.
