Quotes About Integrity

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.

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to.

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

Men tend to carry their honesty in pigeonholes, Jean Louise. They can be perfectly honest in some ways and fool themselves in other ways.

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.

She said she was going to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody.

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.

The only reason Henry's like he is now is because your father took him in hand when he was a boy, and because the war came along and paid for his education. Fine a boy as he is, the trash won't wash out of him.

She died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew. - Atticus Finch

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?

Every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally.

There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads--they couldn't be fair if they tried.

I need a watchman to go forth and proclaim to them all that twenty-six years is too long to play a joke on anybody, no matter how funny it is.

Querida, nunca pode tomar como um insulto que as pessoas te chamem nomes feios. Só mostra até que ponto essa pessoa é pobre de espírito, mas não pode te magoar.

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.

His private character was his public character.

I can't live one way in town and another way in my home

Atticus don't ever do anything to Jem and me in the house that he don't do in the yard.

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

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