Quotes About Community

A baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball and no questions asked.

The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb.

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.

You all know of Brother Tom Robinson's trouble. He has been a faithful member of First Purchase since he was a boy. The collection taken up today and for the

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.

That's the one thing about here, the South, you've missed. You'd be amazed if you knew how many people are on your side, if side's the right word. You're no special case. The woods are full of people like you, but we need some more of you." She

Bu kez farkl?, dedi Atticus. Bu kez Yankilerle savaÅŸm?yoruz, dostlar?m?zla sava??yoruz. Ama ÅŸunu unutma, iÅŸler ne kadar kötüye giderse gitsin, onlar yine de bizim dostumuz, buras? da bizim ülkemiz.

The crowd was visibly impressed with Jean Louise. Girls she saw every day asked her where she got her dress, as if they didn't all get them there: "Ginsberg's. Calpurnia took it up," she said. Several of the younger boys with whom she had been on eye-gouging terms only a few years ago made self-conscious conversation with her.

Take him, Mr. Finch." Mr. Tate handed the rifle to Atticus; Jem and I nearly fainted. "Don't waste time, Heck," said Atticus.

Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children .

She looked at Maycomb, and her throat tightened: Maycomb was looking back at her. Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.

That ain't right, Miss Maudie. You're the best lady I know. Miss Maudie grinned. thank you ma'am. Thing is, foot-washers think women are a sin by definition. They take the bible literally, you know.

Naquela noite, quando saímos do tribunal, a srta. Gates estava descendo a escada na nossa frente [...] Ouvi quando ela disse que estava na hora de alguém dar uma lição neles, que estavam indo longe demais, daqui a pouco iam querer casar com os brancos. Jem, como uma pessoa pode detestar tanto Hitler e depois falar isso de alguém daqui mesmo?

Atticus said professional people were poor because the farmers were poor. As Maycomb County was farm country, nickels and dimes were hard to come by for doctors and dentists and lawyers.

It was customary for the town's three churches—Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian—to unite and listen to one visiting minister, but occasionally when the churches could not agree on a preacher or his salary, each congregation held its own revival with an open invitation to all; sometimes, therefore, the populace was assured of three weeks' spiritual reawakening. Revival time was a time of war:

The Light Brigade sat to the left of her: in their early and middle thirties, they devoted most of their free time to the Amanuensis Club, bridge, and getting one-up on each other in the matter of electrical appliances:

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses, didn't it?" said Atticus. "That proves something —that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children . . . you children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was enough.

Atticus took his career in his hands, made good use of a careless indictment, took his stand before a jury, and accomplished what was never before or afterwards done in Maycomb County: he won an acquittal for a colored boy on a rape charge. The chief witness for the prosecution was a white girl.

while" in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years. Jem and I exchanged glances. "Jem's growing

What on earth could Ewell do to me, sister?" "Something furtive," Aunt Alexandra said. "You may count on that." "Nobody has much chance to be furtive in Maycomb," Atticus answered.

Atticus was saying, "With people like us—that's our share of the bill. We generally get the juries we deserve. Our stout Maycomb citizens aren't interested, in the first place. In the second place, they're afraid. Then

It ain't honest but it's mighty helpful to folks...but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

The scholastic level of that school down the street, Atticus, couldn't be any lower and you know it.