Atticus Finch

"It's all right to talk like Mr. Cunningham at home."

"What reasonable doubt is, gentlemen, is the kind of doubt that would make a reasonable man hesitate."

"You hold your head up and take what comes, but you'll never let them drag you down."

"We do the best we can with the light we have."

"Bravery is when you're scared but you do it anyway."

"There are just some kind of men who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us."

"The one thing that's constant in this world is that the good are often not appreciated."

"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."

"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."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."

"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried."

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

"This case, Tom Robinson's case, is something that goes to the essence of a man's conscience."

"I'm going to win this case. I'm going to win it as surely as if we were in an open courtroom."

"You can't really own land until you know how long the river has been there."

"But 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 a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Edison, and the ignorant man the equal of any president."

"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."

"To love is to forgive."

"The time you waste looking at monuments while you're on Earth is time lost."

"Whatever starts in a man's imagination, must end in a man's hands."

"Scout, you're going to be fine. More than fine."

"Jem, I'm not going to have you beholden to anybody."

"You're going to have a number of new experiences."

"That's the way it is with some folks. They don't have much sense."

"Do the best you can with what you have."

"That's not what I intend to do."

"The days of using the law to oppress people should be over."