Atticus Finch

"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 were born doesn't mean we have to keep groveling."

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

"All we're supposed to do is try to do the best we can."

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

"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both ask for a kind of trust."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life."

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

"It's when you know you're licked that it counts."

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

"You are too young to understand it, but your father's passing the most difficult test of faith."

"Hell, I'm as good as any man in this county, but I'm better than none."

"Atticus said to Jem, 'I wanted you to see what real courage is.'"

"The simple hell of it is, we're licked 'fore we start."

"If you can learn a simple trick, you'll get along better with all kinds of folks."

"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—it's called money."

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun."

"The eyes of the law see all acts as equal."

"This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends."

"You must try to imagine things from his point of view."

"Conscience is something that seems to have deserted most of them."

"I'm simply defending the rights of man and the rights of individual men."

"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you."

"When a man's conscience isn't his guide, there's no such thing as justice."

"As I exhorted Jem earlier, one must sustain faith in human dignity."

"I wonder how it is that people can be so blind."

"The time your friends need you is when they're in the wrong."

"I simply want to tell you all that I'm mighty glad to live where I do."

"It's better to be a living coward than a dead hero."

"There's no lady saintly enough to interfere in men's business."