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Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage--

Kalau hanya ada satu jenis manusia, mengapa mereka tidak bisa rukun? Kalau mereka semua sama, mengapa mereka merepotkan diri untuk saling membenci?

Atticus was speaking so quietly his last word crashed on our ears. I looked up, and his face was vehement. There’s nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who’ll take advantage of a Negro’s ignorance. Don’t fool yourselves—it’s all adding up and one of these days we’re going to pay the bill for it. I hope it’s not in you children’s time.

It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike—in the second place, folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language. Cal,

Miss Maudie settled her bridgework. You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist— That’s what you are, ain’t it? My shell’s not that hard, child. I’m just a Baptist. Don’t you all believe in foot-washing? We do. At home in the bathtub. But we can’t have communion with you all—

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Summer, and he watched his children's heart break.

sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father. I

Bayan Caroline, un çuvalından dikilmiş etek ve kot gömlek giyen bu kılıksız birinci sınıf öğrencilerinin hayal ürünü edebiyata yabancı olduklarını, çoğunun ilk yürümeye başladıkları günden beri pamuk tarlalarında ot temizlediklerini, domuzlara yem verdiklerini bilmiyordu. Öykünün sonuna gelince, "Ah, ne güzeldi değil mi?" diye sordu.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Atticus, you must be wrong. . . . How’s that? Well, most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong. . . . They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions, said Atticus, but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. When

Hey, Boo," I said.

Negro would not pass the Radley Place at night, he would cut across to the sidewalk opposite and whistle as he walked. The

Hey, Boo, I said.

God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

A baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball and no questions asked.

It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike—in the second place, folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk

The churchyard was brick-hard clay, as was the cemetery beside it. If someone died during a dry spell, the body was covered with chunks of ice until rain softened the earth. A few graves in the cemetery were marked with crumbling tombstones; newer ones were outlined with brightly colored glass and broken Coca-Cola bottles. Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves. It was a happy cemetery. The

A jury’s vote’s supposed to be secret. Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant. Tom’s

The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb. They

Я хотел, чтобы ты кое-что в ней понял, хотел, чтобы ты увидел подлинное мужество, а не воображал, будто мужество - это когда у человека в руках ружье. Мужество - это когда заранее знаешь, что ты проиграл, и всё-таки берёшься за дело и наперекор всему на свете идёшь до конца. Побеждаешь очень редко, но иногда всё-таки побеждаешь. Миссис Дюбоз победила. По её воззрениям, она умерла, ничем никому и ничему не обязанная. Я никогда не встречал человека столь мужественного.

Miss

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-I think I'll be a clown when I get grown-said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. "Yes sir, a clown." he said. "There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

– Как по-твоему, отчего Страшила Рэдли не сбежал из дому?Дилл протяжно вздохнул и повернулся на бок. И сказал через плечо:– Может, ему некуда бежать…

You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter that year.

Пожалуй, мне от него и досталось бы, - согласился Аттикус. - Но видишь ли, сын, когда ты станешь постарше, ты будешь немного лучше понимать людей. Что бы там ни было, а всякая толпа состоит из людей. Вчера вечером мистер Канингем был частью толпы, но всё равно он оставался человеком. Всякая толпа во всяком маленьком южном городке состоит из людей, которых мы знаем, из самых обыкновенных людей, и это не очень для них лестно, не так ли?

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit em, but remember that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.

Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case.

everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowin’. That Walter’s as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin’s wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents, said Miss Maudie.

humanos. »Pero hay una cosa en este país ante la cual todos los hombres son iguales; hay una institución humana que hace a un pobre el igual de un Rockefeller, a un estúpido el igual de un Einstein, y a un ignorante el igual de un director de colegio. Esta institución, caballeros, es un tribunal. Puede ser el Tribunal Supremo de Estados Unidos, o el juzgado más humilde del país, o este honorable tribunal que ustedes componen. Nuestros tribunales tienen sus defectos, como los tienen todas las instituciones humanas, pero en este país nuestros tribunales son los grandes niveladores, y para nuestros tribunales todos los hombres han nacido iguales. »No soy un idealista que crea firmemente en la integridad de nuestros tribunales ni del sistema de jurado; esto no es para mí

Atticus was speaking so quietly his last word crashed on our ears. I looked up, and his face was vehement. There’s nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who’ll take advantage of a Negro’s ignorance. Don’t fool yourselves—it’s all adding up and one of these days we’re going to pay the bill for it. I hope it’s not in you children’s time. Jem

He’s the same in the court-room as he is on the public streets.

It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

I kicked the man swiftly. Barefooted, I was surprised to see him fall back in real pain. I intended to kick his shin, but aimed too high.

Понимаете, я стараюсь дать им повод, чтоб они не зря бранились. Людям куда приятней браниться, если у них есть повод.

The Ku Klux’s gone, said Atticus. It’ll never come back. I

she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.

sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of - oh, of your father

You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change . . . it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning.

Kažkas yra mūsų gyvenime, kas verčia žmones pamesti galvas - jie nori būti teisingi, o negali.

That doesn’t mean you hafta talk that way when you know better, said Jem. Calpurnia

I don’t call fifty very old, said Miss Maudie tartly.

Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but

I never loved to read. One does not love breathing

Я не идеалист и вовсе не считаю суд присяжных наилучшим из судов, для меня это не идеал, но существующая, действующая реальность. Суд в целом, джентльмены, не лучше, чем каждый из вас, присяжных. Суд разумен лишь постольку, поскольку разумны присяжные, а присяжные в целом разумны лишь постольку, поскольку разумен каждый из них.