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“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”

Book:To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman. You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.”

Humanity Racism Human Racism In America

Author:Harper Lee

“Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

Truth Race Racism

Book:To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.”

Integrity Racism Fraud Secrets

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.”

Justice Racism Discrimination Inequality Atticus Tom Robinson

Book:To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did. 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.”

Justice Racism Discrimination Inequality Lynching

Book:On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: On Lee's 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.”

Perfect Racism Infallible Atticus Idol Scout Jean Louise

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