Quotes from Harper Lee

ali prije nego što mogu živjeti s drugima, moram mo?i živjeti sam sa sobom. Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlu?uje glasovanjem ve?ine.

Scout, if there's ever anything that happens to you or something—you know—something you might not want to tell Atticus about— Huh? You know, if you get in trouble at school or anything—you just let me know. I'll take care of you.

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.

We Finches don't marry the children of rednecked white trash.

I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

She stepped aside to let him pass. She followed him to the car and watched him get laboriously into the front seat. As she welcomed him silently to the human race, the stab of discovery made her tremble a little. Somebody walked over my grave, she thought, probably Jem on some idiotic errand.

It's grown people who always believe the worst

Jem also told me that if I breathed a word to Atticus, if in any way I let Atticus know I knew, Jem would personally never speak to me again.

La única cosa que no se rige por la regla de la mayoría es la conciencia de uno.

If you did not want much, there was plenty

Older Scout: [narrating] Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.

Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty.

We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe - some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others - some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.

Tak ada yang lebih memuakkan bagiku daripada orang kulit putih bermutu rendah yang memanfaatkan keluguan seorang kulit hitam.

Time spent indoors was time wasted.

Consequently, the town remained the same size for over 150 years. Its primary reason for existence was government. What saved it from becoming another grubby little Alabama community was that Maycomb's proportion of professional people ran high: one went to Maycomb to have his teeth pulled, his wagon fixed, his heart listened to, his money deposited, his mules vetted, his soul saved, his mortgage extended.

Good God, girl!" shouted her uncle. "It was an army of individuals! They walked off their farms and walked to the War!

No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does not resist learning.

It seems to me, that love could be labeled poison and we'd drink it anyways.

Why doesn't their flesh creep? How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up? I thought I was a Christian but I'm not. I'm something else and I don't know what. Everything I have ever taken for right and wrong these people have taught me—these same, these very people. So it's me, it's not them. Something has happened to me.

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That

Jefferson believed full citizenship was a privilege to be earned by each man, that it was not something given lightly nor to be taken lightly. A man couldn't vote simply because he was a man, in Jefferson's eyes. He had to be a responsible man. A vote was, to Jefferson, a precious privilege a man attained for himself in a—a live-and-let-live economy.

The handful of people in this town who say that fair is not marked White Only; the handful of people who say a fair trial is for everybody, not just us; the handful of people with enough humility to think, when they look at a Negro, there but for the Lord's kindness am I. Miss Maudie's old crispness was returning: The handful of people in this town with background, that's who they are.

Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal.