“There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.”

— Harper Lee , book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

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American author 1926–2016

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