To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes - Page 17 | Just Great DataBase

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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

Hadn’t we better go to the livingroom?

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.

Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

In the name of God, do your duty.

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.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none!,

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

Jem, see if you can stand in Bob Ewell's shoes a minute. I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial, if he had any to begin with. The man had to have some kind of comeback, his kind always does.

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

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.

rights for all, special privileges for none!,’ I quoted.

I could not remember when the lines above Atticus’s moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow—anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.

A medida que crezcas, verás a los blancos estafando a los negros, todos los días de tu vida, pero te diré una cosa, y no la olvides: siempre que un hombre blanco abusa de un negro, no importa quién sea, ni cuán rico sea, ni cuán distinguida haya sido la familia de que procede, ese hombre blanco es basura.