Atticus Finch

"It doesn't matter who you are or where you're from. What matters is how you treat people."

"I'm simply defending the innocent."

"You've got to be honest about what you see and what you hear."

"I wanted you to see what real courage is."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"The only thing that's important is the truth."

"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 to try to win."

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

"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."

"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."

"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself."

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow."

"If you just learn a single trick you'll get along fine. If you can learn just one thing, you'll be okay."

"Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with all nice children."

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

"You don't have to be sorry. He called you ugly names, but he is still trash."

"A mob's nothing more than a lot of folks."

"We are trying not to educate her into a style of living that might be her undoing."

"You must never work at belonging to the world, Scout. It'll have little use for you either way."

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

"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."

"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."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

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

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, they don't nest in corn cribs; they just sing their hearts out."

"You can't really own a dog. You can only love one."