“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
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“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 11
Atticus Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt.1, ch.11
Atticus Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Pt. 1, ch. 9
Atticus Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 2, ch. 20
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: 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. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
“A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”
Pt. 2, ch. 20
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: 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. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
Pt. 2, ch. 23
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: 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. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it — whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
“Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.”
Pt. 2, ch. 25
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: In the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird