Kill a mockingbird Quote by Harper Lee

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

— Harper Lee

“Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“If you think Atticus Finch went home at night and slept easy because he knew he was doing the right thing, you're wrong....Because even…

— Kristen Ashley

This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

— John Simon

“Well how do you know we ain’t Negroes?” “Uncle Jack Finch says we really don’t know. He says as far as he can trace…

— Harper Lee

“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“As Tom Robinson gave his testimony, it came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was…

— Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

“Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot…

— Harper Lee

“(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live in isolation…

— Richard Wright

“dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be fooled about…

— James Baldwin

“The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were…

— James Baldwin

“I admit that the black man is inferior. But what is it that makes him so? It is the ignorance in which white men…

— Harriet Jacobs