More quotes by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... 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."
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."
"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."