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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee ( Author of 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, that white man is trash.” (To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes)

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
To kill a mockingbird quotes

‘Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
To kill a mockingbird quotes

“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 you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
To kill a mockingbird quotes

“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.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
To kill a mockingbird quotes

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

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“That was the one thing that made me think, well, this may be the shadow of a beginning. That jury took a few hours. An inevitable verdict, maybe, but usually it takes ‘em just a few minutes.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“Things are always better in the morning.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
To kill a mockingbird quotes

“Things are never as bad as they seem.

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
To kill a mockingbird quotes

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“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 quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
To kill a mockingbird quotes

“You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ‘em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
To kill a mockingbird quotes

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