Atticus Finch

"Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"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."

"Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with all right ones out of them usually by puberty."

"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."

"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 forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, that white man is trash."

"Nothing is more private than the human heart."

"I'm simply defending niggers."

"You must never be frightened by what you see in newspapers."

"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked but you fight anyway."

"We're the same folks, Scout."

"Whatever I do, you can always come to me."

"You're not being very rational, Scout."

"Put your foot in somebody else's shoes and walk around in it."

"We're made of the same dust of the earth."

"The search for truth is always more important than the search for comfort."

"Scout, you mustn't be deceived by the things you have learned."

"The only thing we've got is each other."

"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads."

"There are just some kind of men who are so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one."

"I'm giving you permission to look after these children."

"That's what I mean by real courage, as opposed to physical courage."

"I'm very sorry for her. She will never understand what happened."

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."

"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."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."