Lee created a brilliant hero in the form of Atticus Finch. His wisdom inspires us, his words
contain simple truths, let us mimic them in life.....
To Kill a Mockingbird - Atticus Finch speaks:
- "If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around it it."
- "Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
- "When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness's sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."
- "Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it."
- "Courage isn't a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."