Equality quotes

“- 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...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harry Feist - Major Bergmann
Joop van Hulzen - Captain Hartmann

“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

“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

“Maybe all men got one big soul everybody's a part of, all faces are the same man.”
Jim Caviezel - Pvt. Witt

“I don't recall that glorious document saying anything about all straight men are created equal. I believe it says all men are created equal.”

Denzel Washington - Joe Miller

“- Edwin Epps: You comparing me to a nigger, Bass?
- Bass: I'm only asking, in the eyes of God, what is the difference?”
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps
Brad Pitt - Bass

“I don't hold with equality in all things, just equality before the law, nothing more.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Thaddeus Stevens

“Whether it is with this tragic loss of young lives or with the soft passing of the elderly in the night, we are all equal in death's eyes.”
R. David Stephens - Minister

“Now I bow down to the superiority of the opposite sex in many respects. But from time to time, I believe they should bow down to me.”
Jamie Foxx - Lt. Henry Purcell

“I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.”
Elisabeth Shue

“1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.”
Ronald Francis Perlman

“- Robespierre: We fought a revolution in the name of fairness and equality.
- Danton: Now you chop off any head above the rest.”
Wojciech Pszoniak - Robespierre
Gérard Depardieu - Danton