“La seule chose qui ne doive pas céder à la loi de la majorité est la conscience de l'individu.”
To Kill a Mockingbird (Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur), 1960
Nelle Harper Lee, dite Harper Lee, née le 28 avril 1926 à Monroeville dans l'Alabama et morte le 19 février 2016 dans la même ville, est une romancière américaine connue pour son roman Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur , prix Pulitzer en 1961. Vendu à quarante millions d'exemplaires, ce livre est un classique de la littérature américaine, étudié à ce titre dans de nombreuses écoles secondaires des États-Unis, et régulièrement cité en tête des classements des critiques et libraires.
Elle reçoit en 2007 la médaille présidentielle de la Liberté du président George W. Bush pour sa contribution à la littérature,.
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“La seule chose qui ne doive pas céder à la loi de la majorité est la conscience de l'individu.”
To Kill a Mockingbird (Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur), 1960
To Kill a Mockingbird
“Things are always better in the morning.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 2, ch. 20
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Contexte: 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)
Contexte: 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)
Contexte: 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)
Contexte: 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.
“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Variante: I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 2, ch. 12
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Pt. 1, ch. 9
Atticus Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“Try fighting with your head for a change…
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.”
Source: Go Set a Watchman
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Pt. 2, ch. 16
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)