Author of quotes: Lee Harper

- About how people mock each other and do not even notice it themselves. About how whites mock people of color and do not even think that people of color are people too.

“We're the happiest people in the world,” Miss Maudie said. “It’s not often that circumstances call us to prove that we are indeed Christians, but when that happens, we have people like Atticus for that.

`` Listen, Scout, '' said Atticus, `` summer is coming soon, and then you will have to endure worse and still not lose your composure ... how we behave in difficult times depends ...

- I'll never get married, Atticus.
- Why?
- Suddenly there will be children...

- These footmakers believe that I spend too much time under God's sky and sit too little in the four walls above the word of God.

- Don't get stuck with your tongue! What your business is who he is! He came into the house, which means he’s a guest, and there’s nothing to turn up his nose, look, what an important one you’ve found!

Atticus told me - drop the adjectives, and then everything will come out right.

Here is one of the most ridiculous examples for you: teachers transfer dumb and lazy people from class to class on a par with capable students and explain in earnest that it cannot be otherwise, because all people are created equal and children left for the second year suffer unbearably from the consciousness of their inferiority. But we know that people are not created equal in the sense that some people want to assure us: some are distinguished by their intelligence, others by chance have more opportunities, still others know how to earn more, other women are better at pies - in short, some people are born significantly more gifted than the rest.

Maybe if we hadn't given them so many reasons to talk, they wouldn't have talked.

Atticus once explained to me: if you are a polite person, talk to others not about what is interesting to you, but about what is interesting to them.

Accuracy is also a gift from God, a talent ... But of course, you need to improve it, exercise, and after all, shooting at a target is not like playing the piano, for example. I think that one day he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over living beings, and then he put down the gun.

“Your father is right,” Miss Maudie said. - The mockingbird is the most harmless bird, he only sings for our joy. Mockingbirds do not peck berries in the garden, do not nest in barns, they only do what they sing their songs for us. That is why killing a mockingbird is a sin.

For you the difference between people lies only in conviction, the sharpness of mind, the characteristics and the like. You don't have to look at people as a race, and the race these days - the most that neither is a hot topic. But you still are not able to think racial. You see only people.