...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“No jury in this part of the world's going to say, "We think you're guilty, but not very," on a charge like that. It… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
