| 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 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. |
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- Harper Lee |
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| 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. |
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- Harper Lee |
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| It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. |
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- Harper Lee |
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| I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. |
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- Harper Lee |
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