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.
HARPER LEEAre you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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