Equality quotes

“It's hard to be a woman in a man's world.”
Allison Janney

“The Bible says two men ought not lay together. But I don't reckon the Good Lord would send anybody like you to Hades.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers

“- Captain Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott: A Bird-of-Prey cannot open fire when she's cloaked!
- Captain Spock: All things being equal, Mr. Scott, I would agree with you. However, all things are not equal. This one can.”
James Doohan - Scotty
Leonard Nimoy - Spock

“- The Kralahome, Prime Minister: Your Majesty, I believe there has been enough insult caused by this woman who believes herself to be the equal of a man.
- King Mongkut: Not the equal of a man, Chao Phya. The equal of a King.”
Syed Alwi - The Kralahome
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

“Euclid's first common notion is this: Things which are equal to the same things are equal to each other. That's a rule of mathematical reasoning and its true because it works.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“Never would your father take barbarians as friends or ask us to fight with them as equals in war. Are we not good enough any longer? I remember a time when we could talk as men, strait to the eye, none of this scraping and groveling. I remember a time when we hunted, when we wrestled on the gymnasium floor. And now you kiss them? Take a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gary Stretch - Cleitus

“- Brett: You see, Mr. Parker and I feel that the bonus situation has never been on an equitable level.
- Dallas: You get what you're contracted for like everybody else.
- Brett: Yes, but everybody else, uh, gets more than us.”
Harry Dean Stanton - Brett
Tom Skerritt - Dallas

“It is decreed that all cats and dogs put aside their instinctive and fanatical abhorrence of each other and that hereafter, all creatures great and diminutive shall be of equal stature, with rights to liberty and justice that nobody can deny. And so say all of us.”

“Equality? In death's eyes? All of us? How can you say that? Dude, think it through: Charlie Manson, made it to 70, Osama, still kicking. Pimps, vice presidents, walking around, all the atrocities they've committed, they're alive and well. These two girls, never done shit to anybody, they don't get to make it to 18. Where's the equality in that?”
Kris Lemche - Ian McKinley

“Frankie, when you get to jail, you might want to talk to some of the brothers on your views of racial equality.”
Lenny Henry - Miles Pope

“Whether we are based on carbon or silicon makes no fundamental difference. We should each be treated with appropriate respect.”
Bob Balaban - Dr. R. Chandra

“This is the New South. Now they got black cops to come and torment your black ass. It's called affirmative action.”
Blair Underwood - Bobby Earl

“If there is to be a hope we must all betray our country, we have to save each other because all victims are equal and none is more equal than others. It's everyone's duty to start the avalanche.”
Sir Sean Connery - Barley

“- Tracy Turnblad: I'm an integrationist. We shall overcome someday.
- Beatnik Chick: Not with that hair, you won't.”
Ricki Lake - Tracy Turnblad
Pia Zadora - Beatnik Chick

“The only history we read was made by the white man, written by the white man. Television, cars, medicines - all invented by the white man, even football. Now the way like that, it's not hard to believe there's something inferior about being born black.”
Denzel Washington - Steve Biko

“After all, the wool from the black sheep is just as warm.”
Anna Lee - Sister Margaretta

“Were they ever meant to be our equal? Share our rewards? You remember what Aristotle said. An Asian? What would a wedding vow ever mean to a race that has never kept their word to a Greek?”

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - Cassander

“For men to be men, they must first all be equal.”
Clive Owen - Arthur

“She honestly believes that peasants are as good as we are.”

Alejandro Bracho - Ankaris

“In your heart of hearts, like Barclay and Delahay and Fowler and me, you still believe, inspite of your talk of equality and fraternity, you still believe that some people are better than others because of the way they make love.”
Rupert Everett - Guy Bennett

“I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another.”

Sir Charlie Chaplin - Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania

“- Cochise: We're going in there with nothing?
- Snow: We're going like everybody else: nine guys, no weapons.”
David Harris - Cochise
Brian Tyler - Snow

“Obscenity? We got a million brothers in prison / I mean, the walls are really rockin / But you can bet your ass they'd all be out / If they could pay for Johnny Cochran / The constitution is supposed to give them an equal chance / Well, that ain't gonna happen for sure / Ain't it time to take a little from the rich motherfucker and give a little...” (continue)(continue reading)

Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth

“Muslims look upon themselves as human beings, as part of the human family and therefore look upon all other segments of the human family as part of that same family. Today my friends are black, brown, red, yellow and white.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?”
Monty Woolley - Sheridan Whiteside