Et citat fra litteraturen

"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shal we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is the humility? revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction." (Købmanden i Venedig, 3. akt, 1. scene)