Equality quotes

“Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.”
Steve Guttenberg

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)
Frankie Faison - Eulogist

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”
Charlton Hesto

“- Gabriel Martin: If we win this war, a lot of things will change.
- Soldier Occam: What will change?
- Gabriel Martin: They call this the New World. It's not. It's the same as the old. But we have the chance to build a new world. A world where all men are created equal under God.”

Heath Ledger - Gabriel Martin
Jay Arlen Jones - Occam

“I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.”
Celeste Holm

“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!”
Kim Hunter - Zira

“- Erwin Griswold: Gender equality as a civil right?
- Professor Brown: When everyone’s aggrieved and everyone’s a victim. It’s what the ACLU does, divide the country into smaller and smaller subgroups.”
Sam Waterston - Erwin Griswold
Stephen Root - Professor Brown

“- 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)
Harry Feist - Major Bergmann
Joop van Hulzen - Captain Hartmann

“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)

Mandy Patinkin - Sam Francisco

“It ain't just for us. Black, white, rich, poor, it's for everybody.”
Matthew McConaughey - Newton Knight

“I was raised with these people. Gentile, Jewish. It didn't matter to my family. It never mattered to me.”
Johan Heldenbergh - Jan Zabinski

“We don't have ladders. Ladders represent a social hierarchy that's counterproductive to what we're trying to do here.”
Anna Camp - Aubrey

“We must remind ourselves that these kings and queens or whatever are no better than us. They are just people.”
Olivia Williams - Eleanor

“- 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!”

Miriam Margolyes - Fly
Christine Cavanaugh - Babe

“Separate and equal are two different things. Just 'cause it's the way, doesn't make it right.”
Octavia Spencer - Dorothy Vaughan

“Number one, no man ought to stay poor so another man can get rich. Number two, no man ought to tell another man what you got to live for or what he's got to die for. Number three, what you put in the ground is yours to tend and harvest and there ain't no man ought to be able to take that away from you. Number four, every man is a man. If you...” (continue) (continue reading)

Matthew McConaughey - Newton Knight

“When heterosexual partners die their pensions go to their spouses. But because my partner is a woman, I don't get to do that. In my twenty three years of being a police officer, I've never asked for special treatment. I'm only asking for equality.”
Julianne Moore - Laurel Hester

“I have one simple belief. That the law is the only thing that's capable of making people equal. Now you may think that Mark Blackwell is white trash, and he may very well have been. But in the eyes of the state, his life matters. I'm going to impale your client on a first degree murder charge. And you get a front row seat.”

Billy Bob Thornton - Dwight Dickham

“How can I hold that all men are created equal when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass of the gentleman from Ohio? Proof that some men are inferior, endowed by their maker with dim wits, impermeable to reason, with cold, pallid slime in their veins instead of hot, red blood!”
Tommy Lee Jones - Thaddeus Stevens

“- Antonio Salieri: Leave me alone.
- Father Vogler: I cannot leave alone a soul in pain.
- Antonio Salieri: Do you know who I am?
- Father Vogler: It makes no difference. All men are equal in God's eyes.”
F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri
Richard Frank - Father Vogler

“- Patrick Hale: Mr. President, according to the law, we're supposed to be equal.
- President Lockwood: We are, only some of us are more equal than others. George Orwell.”
Sir Sean Connery - Patrick Hale
George Grizzard - President Lockwood

“- Rico: These girls belong to me.
- Ali G: Belong? That's a very sexist way to talk about these bitches!”
Emilio Rivera - Rico
Sacha Baron Cohen - Ali G

“Battle is the Great Redeemer. It is the fiery crucible in which true heroes are forged. The one place where all men truly share the same rank, regardless of what kind of parasitic scum they were going in.”
Bill Paxton - Master Sergeant Farell

“Don't scrape to me. You are the equal of any man here.”

Ralph Lewis - Hon. Austin Stoneman - Leader of the House

“- John Sculley: We'd be talking about the most tectonic shift in the status quo since...
- Steve Jobs: ...ever.”

Jeff Daniels - John Sculley
Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs