I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church–was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to...

I do my best to love everybody…I’m hard put,sometimes- baby,its never an insult o be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is,it doesn’t hurt you.

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks.”Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his face was cloudy. He was going in to one of his declines,...

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. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but...

There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.

Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three...

It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike–in the second place, folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do.

People are certainly entiteled to think that I’m wrong, and they are entiteled to full respect for their opinions. But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The only...

Maybe he doesn’t have anywhere to run off to…