People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
HARPER LEESome 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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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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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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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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