The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
HARPER LEEYou can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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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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There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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