Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
HARPER LEEReal courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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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.
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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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.
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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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