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He was out of his mind, said Atticus. Don’t like to contradict you, Mr. Finch—wasn’t crazy—mean as hell. Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. He’d never have met you face to face.

A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel – a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.

I told Jem if he set fire to the Radley house I was going to tell Atticus on him.

...pero se que perseguiréis a los pájaros. Mata a todos los arrendajos azules que queréis, si podéis darles, pero recordad que matar a un ruiseñor es pecado.

What say?

Dr. Buford’s profession was medicine and his obsession was anything that grew in the ground, so he stayed poor.

Miss Caroline was no more than twenty-one. She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish. She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. She boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinson’s upstairs front room, and when Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days.

Джим сказал- вся беда в том, что я девчонка,девчонки вечно воображают невесть что, поэтому их все терпеть не могут.

Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlučuje glasovima većine.

Do you itch, Jem? I asked as politely as I could. He did not answer. Come on in, Jem, I said. After while.

Понимаешь, малышка, если кто-то называет тебя словом, которое ему кажется бранным, это вовсе не оскорбление. Это не обидно, а только показывает, какой этот человек жалкий.

Kendim küçüğüm ama yaşım büyük.

those children to work while Tom’s in jail. If

That's what I thought, too," he said at last, "when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. . .it's because he want's to stay inside.

(Courage is) when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win, Atticus said.

while in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years. Jem and I exchanged glances. Jem’s growing

I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

What on earth could Ewell do to me, sister? Something furtive, Aunt Alexandra said. You may count on that. Nobody has much chance to be furtive in Maycomb, Atticus answered.

Мужество — это когда заранее знаешь, что ты проиграл, и всё-таки берёшься за дело и наперекор всему на свете идёшь до конца.

you can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t. That’s

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. Atticus, are we going to win it? No, honey. Then, why— Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win, Atticus said. You

...luchamos contra nuestros amigos. Pero tenlo presente, por muy mal que se ponga la cosa, siguen siendo nuestros amigos, esté es nuestro hogar.

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.

Просто есть такие люди, они... они чересчур думают о том свете и потому никак не научатся жить на этом.

Ce n’est pas parce qu’on est battu d’avance qu’il ne faut pas essayer de gagner.

Chcel som ti ukázať, čo je opravdivá odvaha, a nie ťa utvrdiť v presvedčení, že odvaha znamená človeka s puškou v ruke. Odvaha je: pustiť sa do boja, aj keď vopred vieš, že si porazený, a napriek tomu vytrvať v boji až do konca. Zriedka zvíťazíš, ale niekedy sa ti to podarí.

Let the dead bury the dead...

You aren't really a nigger-lover then, are you?''I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody

Dill, whenever they paused in their pursuits:

unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter that year. We had two weeks of the coldest weather since 1885, Atticus said. Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.

He declined to let us take our air rifles to the Landing (I had already begun to think of shooting Francis)

A mí me dijo que tener un arma equivale a invitar al otro a que te dispare

Ustedes saben la verdad, y la verdad es que algunos negros mienten, algunos negros son inmorales, algunos negros no merecen la confianza de estar cerca de las mujeres... blancas o negras. Pero ésta es una verdad que se aplica a toda la especie humana y no a una raza particular de hombres.

I can't live one way in town and another way in my home.

How could they do it, how could they? I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it—seems that only children weep. Good night. But

nenhum sistema educacional criado pelo homem o impediria de chegar aos livros.

learned

when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants.

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

Whatcha readin’? I asked. Atticus turned the book over. Something of Jem’s. Called The Gray Ghost. I was suddenly awake. Why’d you get that one? Honey, I don’t know. Just picked it up. One of the few things I haven’t read, he said pointedly. Read

We know all men are not created equal in the sense that we believe - some people are smarter than others, some have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others - some people are more gifted beyond the normal scope of most men

Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.-Miss Maudie to Scout

You got it backwards, Dill,’ said Jem. ‘Clowns are sad, it’s folks that laugh at them.

Jem’s face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket. I did likewise with no qualms.

One maniac and millions of German folks. Looked to me like they'd shut Hitler in a pen instead of letting him shut them up.

Le courage, c’est savoir que tu pars battu, mais d’agir quand même sans s’arrêter

You see, don’t you, said Aunt Alexandra, what comes of things like this. Don’t say I haven’t told you.

Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.

quería que vieses lo que es la verdadera bravura, en vez de hacerte la idea de que la bravura la encarna un hombre con un arma en la mano. Uno es valiente cuando, sabiendo que ha perdido ya antes de empezar, empieza a pesar de todo y sigue hasta el final pase lo que pase. Uno vence raras veces, pero alguna vez vence