To Kill a Mockingbird

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy."

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

"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."

"It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

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

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

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us to try to win."

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

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

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom."

"You've got to make allowances for the Cunninghams."

"Anything fit to say at the table's fit to say in front of anybody."

"I'm tired of a man who cheats himself on his voting."

"I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system—that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality."

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

"Climb into the skin of a person and walk around in it."

"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."

"The people who have the most to give are the people who have the least."

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy."

"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another."

"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. That institution, gentlemen, is a court."

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

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

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit them, but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"I wanted to have a private life and a private place to cry."

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

"It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

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

"I'm simply defending the rights of the accused."