"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 race and to no particular race of men."
"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in."
"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."