Equality quotes
92 equality quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines“Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.”
- From the movie: Mississippi Burning
What is an unalienable right if you are a negro? What does it mean, "equal treatment" under the law? What-what does it mean, liberty and justice for all? Now I say to these people, "Look at the face of this young man, and you will see the face of a black man. But if you look at the blood shed, it is red! It is like yours! It is just... like... (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Alien Nation
“You humans are very curious to us. You invite us to live among you in an atmosphere of equality that we've never known before. You give us ownership of our own lives for the first time and you ask no more of us than you do of yourselves. I hope you understand how special your world is, how unique a people you humans are. Which is why it is all...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: The Greatest Showman
“- James Gordon Bennett: I never liked your show, but I always thought the people did
- P.T. Barnum: They did. They do!
- James Gordon Bennett: Putting people of all shapes, sizes, Colours. Putting them on stage together and presenting them as equals, another critic might have even called it a celebration of humanity.
- P.T. Barnum: I would've...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Babe
“- Fly: It's only your first try. But you're treating them like equals. They're sheep, they're inferior.
- Babe: Oh, no, they're not.
- Fly: Of course they are. We are their masters, Babe. Let them doubt it for a second and they'll walk all over you!” - From the movie: Hidden Figures
“Separate and equal are two different things. Just 'cause it's the way, doesn't make it right.”
- From the movie: Cry Freedom
“I just expect to be treated like you expect to be treated. Come on, what are you so afraid of? Once you try you see there's nothing to fear. We're just as weak and human as you are.”
- La trovi in Actors and Politics
“I've always felt that in America we're all equal. I don't care what you make, or what kind of car you drive. You're not better than me.”
“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”
- From the movie: Nobody's Fool
“Ollie, you know my feelings about arming morons: you arm one, you've got to arm them all, otherwise it wouldn't be good sport.”
- From the animation: Robots
“You can shine no matter what you're made of.”
- From the movie: The Great Dictator
- From the movie: The Patriot
- From the movie: Malcolm X
“You may be shocked by these words, but I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass and prayed to the same God with fellow Muslims whose eyes were blue, whose hair was blond and whose skin was the whitest of whites. And we are brothers, truly.”
“I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.”
“If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.”
- From the movie: Mr. Jones
“What is your duty to a country? Do you follow it blindly? Or do you challenge your country to be better and stand up to the ideals that all men are created equal and everyone deserves equity, not just equality?”
- From the movie: Solo: A Star Wars Story
“- Lando Calrissian: Do you want anything?
- L3-37: Equal rights?” - From the movie: Escape from the Planet of the Apes
“A marriage bed is made for two. But every damn morning, it's the woman who has to make it. We have heads as well as hands. I call upon men to let us use them!”
- From the movie: On the Basis of Sex
- From the movie: Rome, Open City
“- Major Bergman: I've a man who must talk before dawn and a priest who is praying for him. He'll talk.
- Captain Hartmann: And if not?
- Major Bergman: Ridiculous.
- Captain Hartmann: And if not?
- Major Bergman: Then it would mean an Italian is worth as much as a German. It would mean there is no difference in the blood of a slave race and a...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Free State of Jones
“It ain't just for us. Black, white, rich, poor, it's for everybody.”
- From the movie: The Zookeeper's Wife
“I was raised with these people. Gentile, Jewish. It didn't matter to my family. It never mattered to me.”
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