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Men Quotes by Harper Lee
- 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.
- I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it…
- Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
- 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…
- My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no…
- When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.
- 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…
- Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really…
- There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.
- Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind…
- There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of…
- Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine…
- 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…
- There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it…
- We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
- There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
- A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man.…
- I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
- Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that…
- We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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