You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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.
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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.
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
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.
If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.
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.
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
or simply:
