Kill A Mockingbird Novel Quotes by Harper Lee and many others.
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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.
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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.
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand.
This time we aren’t fighting the Yankees, we’re fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends and this is still our home.
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.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
…but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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.
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
