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 LEEThe one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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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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