We wondered, sometimes, when your conscience and his would part company, and over what. Dr. Finch smiled. Well, we know now. I’m just thankful I was around when the ructions started. Atticus couldn’t...
Good grief, baby, people don’t agree with the Klan, but they certainly don’t try to prevent them from puttin’ on sheets and making fools of themselves in public.
He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.
She wondered why she had never thought her country beautiful.
You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons.
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be heany colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
Scout- .. Uncle Jack?"Uncle Jack- "Ma'am?"Scout- "What's a whore-lady?
They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
The only thing I’m afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn’t be worth living...
Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk aro...
Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own.
She was almost in love with him. No, that’s impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren’t. Love’s the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly...
I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the differe...
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike- in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it t...
I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.
We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe- some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make...
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