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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.
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Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.
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I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
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Dill? Mm? Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off? Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to
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My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.
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No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
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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 race and to no particular race of men.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
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There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I do my best to love everybody
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I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
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