“Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my hand, opened the door, enter inside, and shut the door behind him. I never saw him again.” InspirationalSadJemAtticusMockingbirdScoutFinchBooRadley Book:To Kill a Mockingbird Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Atticus said someone must have lost it, and had we asked around? Jem camel-kicked me when I tried to say where we had found it.” KidsFunnyHumourSiblingsJemAtticusScoutTo Kill A Mockingbird Book:To Kill a Mockingbird Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but 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.” JusticeRacismDiscriminationInequalityAtticusTom Robinson Book:To Kill a Mockingbird Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“You confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings – I’ll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes ’em like all of us. You were an emotional cripple, leaning on him, getting answers from him, assuming that your answers would always be his answers.” PerfectRacismInfallibleAtticusIdolScoutJean Louise Author:Harper Lee
“-Tienen derecho a creerlo, ciertamente, y tienen derecho a que se respeten en absoluto sus opiniones -contestó Atticus-, pero antes de poder vivir con otras personas tengo que vivir conmigo mismo. La única cosa que no se rige por la regla de la mayoría es la conciencia de uno.” AtticusHarper LeeTokillamockingbird Book:To Kill a Mockingbird Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“You can't go around making caricatures of the neighbours.' 'Ain't a characterture,' said Jem. 'It looks just like him.” FunnyJemAtticusSnowmanTo Kill A Mockingbird Author:Harper Lee
“If just for one week in the South would show them some simple, impartial courtesy. I wonder what would happen. Do you think it'd give 'em airs or the beginnings of self-respect? Have you ever been snubbed, Atticus? Do you know how it feels? No, don't tell me they're children and don't feel it: I was a child and felt it, so grown children must feel, too. A real good snub, Atticus, makes you feel like you're too nasty to associate with people. How they're as good as they are now is a mystery to me, after a hundred years of systematic denial that they are human. I wonder what kind of miracle we could work with a week's decency.” AtticusScoutHarper LeeScout FinchJean Louise Book:Go Set a Watchman Source: Go Set a Watchman