To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.” (116) “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.” –Atticus (pg. 30) “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anyone says to you, don’t let ‘em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change…it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning.”–Atticus (pg. 76) 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, Chapter 11 I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 23, spoken by the character Scout “

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, of how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.” (Atticus page. 200, chapter 18) “It’s not okay to hate anybody.”—(Atticus page. 246, chapter 24) “‘It’s against the law all right,’ said my father, ‘and it’s certainly bad when a man spends his relief checks on green whisky while his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don’t know of landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit.”Of course he shouldn’t, but he’ll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children'” (p 34) 1) “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”(Scout) page 18 2) Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”–Atticus (pg. 105)