Miss Stephanie – 60 “What happened?”…”Mr Radley shot a Negro in his collard patch.” “Oh, did he hit him?” “No…Shot in the air. Scared him pale though. Says if anyone see a white nigger around, that’s the one…”

Atticus – 84 “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we began is no reason for us not to try to win.”

Scout – 90 “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches: when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants.”

Scout – “with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; further more, I should be a ray of sunshine in my father’s lonely life.”

Mr Raymond – 222 . “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.”

Atticus – 224 “…broken and time-honored code of our society…”

Atticus – 225 “What did she do? She tempted a Negro. She was white and she tempted a Negro.”

Atticus – 225 “the evil assumption – that all Negroes lire, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their calibre.”

Atticus – 226 “some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women – black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

Jem & Reverend Skyes – 230 “‘He’s not supposed to lean, Reverend, but don’t fret, we’ve won it’…’Don’t see how any jury could convict o what we heard-‘ ‘Now don’t you be so confident, Mr Jem, I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man…'”

Jem & Atticus – 235 “How could they do it, how could they?” “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it, it seems that only children weep.”

Atticus – 243 “a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins.”

Atticus – 243 “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black me every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it, Whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”

Scout & Aunty – 248 “But I want to play with Walter, Aunty, why can’t I?” “Because – he – is – trash, that’s why you can’t play with him. I’ll not have you around him, picking up his habits and learning Lord-knows-what…”

Scout & Atticus – “For one thing, Miss Maudie can’t serve on a jury because she’s a woman-” “You mean women in Alabama can’t-?” I was indignant. “I do. I guess it’s to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom’s. Besides,” Atticus grinned, “I doubt if we’d ever get a complete case tried—the ladies’d be interrupting to ask questions.” Jem and I laughed. Miss Maudie on a jury would be impressive. I thought of old Mrs. Dubose in her wheelchair—”Stop that rapping, John Taylor, I want to ask this man something.” Perhaps our forefathers were wise.”

Atticus – “The one place where a man ought to have a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into the jury box.”

Mr Gates – “Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced. There are no better people in the world than the Jews and why Hitler doesn’t think so is a mystery to me.” (people removed can see it clearer, they can see it so far away and recognize the racism but not from in their own town and their own words)

Scout – ” Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be ugly to folks right at home-?”

Jem – “That’s what I thought,” said Jem, “but around here once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black”

Scout and Atticus – “You aren’t really a nigger-lover, then, are you?” “I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody… I’m hard put, sometimes—baby, it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”

“What are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady! You’ll grow up waiting on tables if somebody doesn’t change your ways – a Finch waiting on tables at the 0.K cafe, hah!”

Scout – “Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere, but this feeling was what Aunt Alexandra called being “spoiled.”

Scout – “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with. “