If you prick us, do we not bleed?
William Shakespeare
1564 to 1616
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He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed the same means, warmed and cooled by the same and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? we are like you in the rest, we will you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and shall go hard but I will better the instruction.