The American Dream Starts With The Neighborhoods.

Politics Is Theater. It Doesn't Matter If You Win. You Make A Statement. You Say, "i'm Here, Pay Attention To Me

To Sit On The Front Steps — Whether It's A Veranda In A Small Town Or A Concrete Stoop In A Big City — And To Talk To Our Neighborhoods Is Infinitely More Important Than To Huddle On The Living-room Lounger And Watch A Make-believe World In Not-quite Living Color.

Every Gay Person Must Come Out. As Difficult As It Is, You Must Tell Your Immediate Family. You Must Tell Your Relatives. You Must Tell Your Friends If Indeed They Are Your Friends. You Must Tell The People You Work With. You Must Tell The People In The Stores You Shop In. Once They Realize That We Are Indeed Their Children, That We Are Indeed Everywhere, Every Myth, Every Lie, Every Innuendo Will Be Destroyed Once And All. And Once You Do, You Will Feel So Much Better

We Will Not Win Our Rights By Staying Quietly In Our Closets.

I Ask For The Movement To Continue, For The Movement To Grow, Because Last Week I Got A Phone Call From Altoona, Pennsylvania, And My Election Gave Somebody Else, One More Person, Hope. And After All, That's What This Is All About. It's Not About Personal Gain, Not About Ego, Not About Power - It's About Giving Those Young People Out There In The Altoona, Pennsylvanias, Hope. You Gotta Give Them Hope.