You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-"
"Sir?"
"-until you climb into his skin and walk around it."
39
"You are too young to understand it," she said, "but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of - oh, of your father."
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There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
60
"Cry about the simple hell people give other people-without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too."
269
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. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have hard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty.
275
Great book. Why it took this long to read is beyond me but now that I've read it at this age, I hold more respect for Atticus. But dayum sir... don't you think not covering up for your son is a bit too harsh? (Though it turns out Boo Radley did it) Neverthless the epitome of a father. Somehow the message this book tells still resonates today, and I don't know how I feel about that. Feels like nothing really has changed much deep inside our prejudices.
