If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised a green light to move forward.

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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

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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability."

- Harvey Mackay

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"Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first."

- Angela Ahrendts

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"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

Leadership

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

- Jack Welch

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