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Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

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They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.

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You confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings – I’ll grant you it may have been hard to see, ...more

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If a man says to you, "This is the truth," and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not the truth, you are disappointed and you make sure...more

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In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's

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The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, becaus...more

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Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.''Who?' Aunt Alexandra ...more

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I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

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Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s...more

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If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

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Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's h...more

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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...more