"Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."
- Harper Lee
"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 of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never le..."
"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a..."
"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'e..."
"Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing."
"Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to."
"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."
"You deny them hope... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much."
"How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senseless killing--Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death; he had been tried openly and convicted by twelv..."
"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."