Quotes About Equality

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand

Nie, Jem, mówiÄ™ ci , ?e istnieje tylko jedna odmiana ludzi. Ludzie.

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

Negro would not pass the Radley Place at night, he would cut across to the sidewalk opposite and whistle as he walked.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

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

Jij bent kleurenblind, Jean Louise. Dat ben je altijd geweest en dat zul je altijd zijn. De enige verschillen die jij ziet tussen de ene mens en de andere zijn de verschillen in uiterlijk en intelligentie en karakter en dat soort dingen. Je bent nooit opgestookt om mensen als een ras te zien, en nu dat ras de brandende kwestie van deze tijd is, ben jij nog niet in staat om in rassen te denken. Jij ziet alleen mensen.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

real good snub, Atticus, makes you feel like you're too nasty to associate with people. How they're as good as they are now is a mystery to me, after a hundred years of systematic denial that they're human.

Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children .

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?

how can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home-

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

If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other?

Hypocrites have just as much right to live in this world as anybody." She

That's what I thought, too, he said at last, when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. . .it's because he want's to stay inside.

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.

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.

The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to, but it won't be that way much longer.

L'unica superiorità che l'ometto sul banco dei testimoni poteva vantare sui propri vicini di casa consisteva nel fatto che, a strofinarlo con la liscivia e acqua molto calda, si sarebbe scoperto che la sua pelle era bianca.