WIST Quotations

Lee, Harper -- To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through not matter what.

Harper Lee (1926-2016) American writer [Nellie Harper Lee]
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

Lee, Harper -- To Kill a Mockingbird [Scout] (1960)

Dave — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:24:30 +0000

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Harper Lee (1926-2016) American writer [Nellie Harper Lee]
To Kill a Mockingbird [Scout] (1960)

Lee, Harper -- To Kill a Mockingbird, ch. 11 (1960)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

“They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,” said Atticus, “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.”

Harper Lee (1926-2016) American writer [Nellie Harper Lee]
To Kill a Mockingbird, ch. 11 (1960)
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Lee, Harper -- To Kill a Mockingbird, ch. 20 (1960)

Dave — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:54:40 +0000

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal — there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be in the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal.

Harper Lee (1926-2016) American writer [Nellie Harper Lee]
To Kill a Mockingbird, ch. 20 (1960)

Lee, Harper -- To Kill a Mockingbird, ch. 20 (1960)

Dave — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 21:56:35 +0000

I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is an ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

Harper Lee (1926-2016) American writer [Nellie Harper Lee]
To Kill a Mockingbird, ch. 20 (1960)

Lee, Harper -- To Kill a Mockingbird, ch. 23 (1960)

Dave — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 21:04:58 +0000

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.

Harper Lee (1926-2016) American writer [Nellie Harper Lee]
To Kill a Mockingbird, ch. 23 (1960)