It takes no compromise to give 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.

The assassinations and the ensuing events were the result of continuing ideological conflicts in the city. He imagined a righteous world inside his head and then he set about to create it for real for all of us. In 2002 Milk was called "the most famous and most significantly open LGBT official ever elected in the United States".