If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

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From a tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination, quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), p. 372. Milk made three recordings for this purpose; these words come from the version given to Frank Robinson.

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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

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