Atticus Being A Mockingbird Quotes

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.

I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.