Equality quotes

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

“- 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)
Paul Sparks - James Gordon Bennett
Hugh Jackman - P.T. Barnum

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 Heston

“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

“- 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

“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.”

Denzel Washington - Steve Biko

“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.”
Peter Jason

“- Lionel Logue: Please, call me Lionel.
- King George VI: No, I... prefer Doctor.
- Lionel Logue: I prefer Lionel. What'll I call you?
- King George VI: Your Royal Highness. And... Sir... after that.
- Lionel Logue: How about Bertie?
- King George VI: Only my family uses that.
- Lionel Logue: Perfect. Here, it's better if we're equals.
- King...” (continue)(continue reading)

Geoffrey Rush - Lionel Logue
Colin Firth - King George VI

“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.”
Philip Bosco - Judge Flatt

“You can shine no matter what you're made of.”
Mel Brooks - Bigweld

“Hell, you could have a flood any minute… Pretty soon you could have the women going off to work while the men stayed home and cooked.”
Tobey Maguire - David

“Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.”

Sir Charlie Chaplin - Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania

“- 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

“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.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“They rounded every pup up into that schoolhouse because they fancied that everyone should think and talk the same free-thinkin' way they do with no regard to station, custom, propriety. And that is why they will win. Because they believe everyone should live and think just like them. And we shall lose because we don't care one way or another how...” (continue)(continue reading)

Zach Grenier - Mr. Evans

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

“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.”
Don Cheadle

“All men are not created equal. This was the reality I learned about society at the young age of four. And that was my first and last setback.”
Daiki Yamashita - Izuku Midoriya

“All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.”
Joseph Mawle - George Orwell

“I support equal rights and equal dignity for all.”
Alice Eve

“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?”
Winston Duke

“- Lando Calrissian: Do you want anything?
- L3-37: Equal rights?”
Donald Glover - Lando Calrissian
Phoebe Waller-Bridge - L3-37

“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