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.

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"If you're not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities — the expression of love — then life itself loses its meaning."

- Harvey Milk

Love

"How can people change their minds about us if they don’t know who we are?"

- Harvey Milk

Awareness

"Hope will never be silent."

- Harvey Milk

Hope

"Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard."

- Harvey Milk

Courage

"We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets."

- Harvey Milk

Courage

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"We have raised the bar. … But that doesn’t raise it just for the youth. That raises it for the parents, who have the primary responsibility for teaching their children principles. That raises it for the leaders. That raises it for the teachers. We’ve all got to take a step up in a world that is unraveling as fast as this one is."

- President M. Russell Ballard

Responsibility

"Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. People can’t stop you. Only you can stop you."

- Unknown

Responsibility

"Life comes at a cost. Wouldn’t it be arrogant to die before you’ve repaid that debt?"

- Yuuji Kazami

Responsibility

"You can’t win a game by doing nothing. And if someone else wins it for you then you haven’t accomplished anything. Life is the same way."

- Junichirou Kagami

Responsibility

"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."

- John F. Kennedy

Responsibility