Harper Lee · Skopia

Quotes

4

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.8

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.8

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal-there is one human institiution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockeffeler, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.7

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system-that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. 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.

To Kill a Mockingbird · 1960

★ 3.7

Books

1

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960★ 8.6