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The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that it's government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampl...more

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I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church--was it then I learn...more

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Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.

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I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You ...more

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How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senseless killing--Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his deat...more

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There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went o...more

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There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked...more

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...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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We saw Uncle Jack every Christmas, and every Christmas he yelled across the street for Miss Maudie to come marry him. Miss Mauide would yell back, "Ca...more

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Atticus, you must be wrong." "How's that?" "Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong. . ." "They're certainly entitled to think t...more