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"'Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open'" (Lee 231).
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
“Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time…
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it" - Atticus Finch
“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."-Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
- Ms…
“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.
- Atticus…
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
"There are just some kind of men who--who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one"
- page 45
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a persons' consequence"
"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."