Quotes from Harper Lee

Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

A world she despised, could not comprehend, nor defend herself against. a world that did not want her

Most people are nice when you finally see them

Bir kibrit çak?p kaplumbaÄŸan?n alt?na tutman?n iÄŸrenç bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunu söyledi Dill. Ä°ÄŸren. falan deÄŸil, s?rf d??ar? ç?karmak için, ateÅŸin içine atmak gibi bir ÅŸey deÄŸil, diye gürledi Jem. Kibritin ona zarar vermeyeceÄŸini nereden biliyorsun? KaplumbaÄŸalar hissetmez, aptal, dedi Jem. Hiç kaplumbaÄŸa oldun mu?

Atticus, are we going to win it?" "No, honey." "Then, why—" "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win," Atticus said.

If we followed our feelings all the time we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage--

How can you hate Hitler so bad an'then turn around and be ugly about folks at home?

rights for all, special privileges for none!",' I quoted.

tetapi sebelum aku mampu hidup dengan orang lain, aku hidup dengan diriku sendiri. Satu hal yang tidak tunduk pada mayoritas adalah nurani seseorang.

She heard her father's voice, a tiny voice talking in the warm comfortable past. Gentlemen, if there's one slogan in this world I believe, it is this: equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

I lay on my stomach, reached down and poked him. He rolled up. Then, feeling safe, I suppose, he slowly unrolled. He travelled a few inches in his hundred legs and I touched him again. He rolled up. Feeling sleepy, I decided to end things. My hand was going down on him when Jem spoke.

What Boo Rdley did might seem peculiar to us but it did not seem peculiar to him.

The remainder of the afternoon went by in the gentle gloom that descends when relatives appear

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

Kalau hanya ada satu jenis manusia, mengapa mereka tidak bisa rukun? Kalau mereka semua sama, mengapa mereka merepotkan diri untuk saling membenci?

What turned ordinary men into screaming dirt at the top of their voices, what made her kind of people harden and say "nigger" when the word had never crossed their lips before?

Remember this also: it's always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you'll get along." "Uncle

Atticus was speaking so quietly his last word crashed on our ears. I looked up, and his face was vehement. "There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance. Don't fool yourselves—it's all adding up and one of these days we're going to pay the bill for it. I hope it's not in you children's time.

Scout Finch, juvenile desperado, hellraiser extraordinary.

We are making a step. It's just a baby step but it's a step.

I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants.

A man can be boiling inside, but he knows a mild answer works better than showing his rage. A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

When you live in New York, you often have the feeling that New York's not the world. I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Maycomb it's like leaving the world.