You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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.
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.
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.
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
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.
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.
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