"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."
"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."
"Atticus, he was real nice...Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
"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."
"There are just some kind of men who—who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one."
"Atticus, you must be wrong...."
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another."
"Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it."
"With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."
"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents."
"Atticus, he was real nice...Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
"They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself."
"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."
"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."
"Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself."
"It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you."
"We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple."
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