“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.
-Atticus Finch”

— Harper Lee, book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

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American author 1926–2016

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