And what is his reason? I am a Jew! Hath not a Jew eyes?  Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections and 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, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble in that.

( from  ‘The Merchant of Venice’ by  William Shakespeare )