Quotes About Justice

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

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

You know rape's a capital offense in Alabama," said Atticus. "Yessir

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

That was the one thing that made me think, well, this may be the shadow of a beginning. That jury took a few hours. An inevitable verdict, maybe, but usually it takes 'em just a few minutes. This time—" he broke off and looked at us. "You might like to know that there was one fellow who took considerable wearing down—in the beginning he was rarin' for an outright acquittal.

can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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 .

satu hal yang tidak tunduk pada mayoritas adalah nurani seseorang

don't see why you touched it in the first place," Mr. Link Deas was saying. "You've got everything to lose from this, Atticus. I mean everything.

Do you defend niggers, Atticus?" I asked him that evening. "Of course I do. Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common.

The older you grow the more of it you'll see. 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. As

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.

Y Atticus le dijo un día a Jem: - Preferiría que disparaseis contra botes vacíos en el patio trasero, pero sé que perseguiréis a los pájaros. Matad todos los arrendajos azules que queráis, si podéis darles, pero recordad que matar a un ruiseñor es pecado (p.136)

pero se que perseguiréis a los pájaros. Mata a todos los arrendajos azules que queréis, si podéis darles, pero recordad que matar a un ruiseñor es pecado.

Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlu?uje glasovima ve?ine.

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.

Ustedes saben la verdad, y la verdad es que algunos negros mienten, algunos negros son inmorales, algunos negros no merecen la confianza de estar cerca de las mujeres... blancas o negras. Pero ésta es una verdad que se aplica a toda la especie humana y no a una raza particular de hombres.

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

I ain't never seen any jury decide in favor of a coloured man over a white man..

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.

A medida que crezcas, verás a los blancos estafando a los negros, todos los días de tu vida, pero te diré una cosa, y no la olvides: siempre que un hombre blanco abusa de un negro, no importa quién sea, ni cuán rico sea, ni cuán distinguida haya sido la familia de que procede, ese hombre blanco es basura.

Atticus says that you can't punish the children for the father's faults.

You are using frightful means to justify ends that you think are for the good of the most people. Your ends may well be right—I think I believe in the same ends—but you cannot use people as your pawns, Atticus. You cannot.