I'd give you respect if you acknowledged me as an equal. But you don't. Not by dismissing what I've been through as less, rather than simply different. That's all I was seeking. But you didn't want to speak with someone of this world, your voice made that clear even if you didn't say it outright, and you don't see me as an equal.

[He exhales.]

Which is the very thing I've spent my whole life fighting for, freedom and equality, so you'll have to excuse me for not respecting yet another person who refuses to see me as a person.