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Quotes About Integrity

I wanted you to see what real courage is instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
~ Harper Lee
draugams tav?s reikia, kai jie klysta, o ne tada, kai b?na teis?s...
~ Harper Lee
Kind, du darfst dich nie beleidigt fühlen, wenn jemand dir etwas nachruft, was er als Schimpfnamen betrachtet. Das zeigt nur, was für ein armseliger Mensch der andere ist, es verletzt nicht.
~ Harper Lee
Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
~ Harper Lee
The bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of one man
~ Harper Lee
the one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule
~ Harper Lee
You just hold your head high and keep those fists down
~ Harper Lee
In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's
~ Harper Lee
Never ask a witness a question when you don't already know the answer
~ Harper Lee
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ~ Atticus Finch (To Kill A Mockingbird)
~ Harper Lee
I'm hard put, sometimes— baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. (Atticus)
~ Harper Lee
but she knew that her father's presence at the table with a man who spewed filth from his mouth—did that make it less filthy? No. it condoned.
~ Harper Lee
As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - 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.
~ Harper Lee
Atticus, davay? kazanacak m?y?z? Hay?r, tatl?m. O zaman neden... Daha baÅŸlamadan yüz y?l önce davay? kaybetmiÅŸ olmam?z demek kazanmaya çal??mayaca??z anlam?na gelmez. dedi Atticus.
~ Harper Lee
Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand
~ Harper Lee
For a number of reasons, said Atticus. The main one is, if I didn't I couldn't hold up my head in town, I couldn't represent this county in the legislature, I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again. (Lee 177)
~ Harper Lee
Có má»™t th? không tuân theo nguyên t?c s? Ä'ông. ?ó là lương tâm con ng??i
~ Harper Lee
If a man says to you, This is the truth, and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not the truth, you are disappointed and you make sure you will not be caught out by him again. But a man who has lived by the truth-and you have believed in what he has lived-he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing.
~ Harper Lee
atticus finch is husband material
~ Harper Lee
Shoot all the bluejays you want if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
~ Harper Lee
But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide my majority rule is a person's conscience.
~ Harper Lee
I wanted you to see something about her–I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.
~ Harper Lee
That ain't honest, Mr. Raymond, making yourself out badder'n you are already-- It ain't honest but it's mighty helpful to folks
~ Harper Lee
confident that you gentlemen will go along with them on the assumption-the evil assumption-that all negro men are not to be trusted, all negro men are basically immoral beings, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber which we know it is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson's skin.
~ Harper Lee