black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Harper Lee

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.
HARPER LEE

Carry Color Deal Man People Place Right Room Way
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.
HARPER LEE

Focus Himself Man Mindset Service
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
HARPER LEE

Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
HARPER LEE

Person Point Understand View Yourself
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.
HARPER LEE

Believe Court Health Ideal Integrity Live Work
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
HARPER LEE

Conscience Listening People Person Rule
You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE

Place Understand Walk Yourself
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.
HARPER LEE

Bird Destroy Enjoyment Garden Heart Music Sin Sing
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.
HARPER LEE

Acknowledgement Choice Family Friendship Right Yourself
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
HARPER LEE

Mindset People Pride Right Talent
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.
HARPER LEE

Better Earth Equality Growth Harm Important Myself Poor Rich Thinking Truth Yourself
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
HARPER LEE

Himself Worth Writing
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
HARPER LEE

Circumstance Insult Night Proud Stranger Yourself
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
HARPER LEE

Funny Pride Proud Woman
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.
HARPER LEE

Coffee Creative People Sports Thinking Work Yourself
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 LEE

Courage Hands Ideas Reality Weapon

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Harper Lee Quotes