I don't think we have a right to take the people who raised us, who made us strong and healthy, and toss them away like a can of beer.

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On supporting the elderly, who he called the most oppressed group in America. From Flashback: Meet San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, NBC News, November 27, 2018, taken from a report in 1978, and Forty years after his death, Harvey Milk's legacy still lives on, NBC News, November 27, 2018.

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