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Obama?s remarks on Harvey Milk at Medal of Freedom ceremony

By Alliance Alert

White House Briefing Room: "His name was Harvey Milk, and he was here to recruit us -- all of us -- to join a movement and change a nation. For much of his early life, he had silenced himself. In the prime of his life, he was silenced by the act of another. But in the brief time in which he spoke -- and ran and led -- his voice stirred the aspirations of millions of people. He would become, after several attempts, one of the first openly gay Americans elected to public office. And his message of hope -- hope unashamed, hope unafraid -- could not ever be silenced. It was Harvey who said it best: 'You gotta give 'em hope.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 12, 2009 (boomark / email).