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
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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