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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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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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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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I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there ...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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If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

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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

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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human ra...more