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.
HARPER LEEI’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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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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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