As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun… — 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
Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that… — 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
We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There are just some kind of men who—who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple. — 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
