Quotes About Morality

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.

Atticus -' said Jem bleakly. He turned in the doorway, 'What, son?' 'How could they do it, how could they?' 'I don't know, but they did it. 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. Good night.

The time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right.

I don't know why you can't. Hypocrites have just as much right to live in this world as anybody.

cheatin' a colored man is ten times worse than cheatin' a white man

I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things. I guess he decided he wouldn't shoot till he had to, and he had to today." "Looks like he'd be proud of it," I said. "People in their right minds never take pride in their talents," said Miss Maudie.

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin 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.

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

When you happened along and saw him doing something that seemed to you to be the very antithesis of his conscience-your conscience-you literally could not stand it. It made you physically ill. Life became hell on earth for you. You had to kill yourself, or he had to kill you to get you functioning as a separate entity.

Your father is 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 sing to kill a mockingbird.

Dr. Finch looked up. "You're making a bad mistake if you think your daddy's dedicated to keeping the Negroes in their places.

Do you defend niggers, Atticus?' I asked him that evening. 'Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common.' ''s what everybody at schools says.' 'From now on it'll be everybody less one -' 'Well if you don't want me to grow up talkin' that way, wh ydo you send me to school?

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.

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.

I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Jean Louise, when I said that I wasn't referring to us." "Who were you talking about, then?" "I was talking about the—you know, the trashy people. The men who keep Negro women and that kind of thing.

Henry, how can you live with yourself?" "It's comparatively easy. Sometimes I just don't vote my convictions, that's all.

I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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

But Mrs Dubose held us: 'Not only a Finch waiting on tables but one in the court-house lawing for niggers!

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit em, but remember that it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Wrogi t?um zawsze sk?ada si? z pojedynczych ludzi, nie mo?e by? inaczej. Pan Cunningham by? wczoraj cz??ci? t?umu, ale mimo to pozosta? cz?owiekiem.

Ieders eiland, Jean Louise, ieders wachter, is zijn geweten. Een collectief geweten bestaat niet.