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"And I thought to myself, well, we're making a step - it's just a baby-step, but it's a step." - Miss. Maudie

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You might like to know that there was one fellow who took considerable wearing down- in the beginning he was rarin’ for an outright acquittal- Atticus

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

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(April)
“Mr.Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children.” -Scout

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“We generally get the juries we deserve. Our stout Maycomb citizens aren’t interested, in the first place. In the second place, they’re afraid.”-Atticus

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Hailey
“I waited and waited to see you all come down the sidewalk, and as I waited I thought, Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win, but he’s the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that.” Ms. Maudie

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“There’s nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who’ll take advantage of a Negros ignorance. Don’t fool yourselves— it’s all adding up and one of these days we’re going to pay the bill for it I hope it’s not in you ci doriens time.” - Atticus

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‘“Ain’t it a long time?” I asked him (Jem).’
‘“Sure is Scout” he said happily.’

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When summer comes you’ll have to keep your head about far worse things... it’s not fair for you and Jem, I know that, but sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down-well, all I can say is, when you and Jem are grown, maybe you’ll look back on this with some compassion and some feeling that I didn’t let you down. This case, Tom Robinson’s case, is something that goes into the essence of a mans conscience- Scout, I couldn’t go to church and worship god if I didn’t try and help this man. - Atticus

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“There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.” - Atticus

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Atticus says that the verdict was inevitable, and that usually, it would have taken the jury "just a few minutes" to convict Tom Robinson.  This time, however, because of the one holdout, it took "a few hours".  Atticus is heartened by this fact; he thinks that "this may be the shadow of a beginning" of change in attitudes and social realities concerning the relations between blacks and whites in Maycomb.

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"This case, Tom Robinson's case, is something that goes to the essence of a man's conscience-Scout, I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that man." - atticus

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“It ain’t honest but it’s mighty helpful to folks. Secretly Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.” -Dolphus Raymond

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“She was white and tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. (...) No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterward.”- Atticus

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“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.” - Dolphins Raymond

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“I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: ‘Guilty… guilty… guilty… guilty…’ I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each ‘guilty’ was a separate stab between them.’” - Jem

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“Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win, but he’s the only man who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that. And I thought to myself, well, we’re making a step-it’s just a baby step, but it’s a step.” ( Miss Maudie )

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“(...)Let the dead bury the dead, Mr.Finch.”- Atticus

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“I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man.” -Reverend Sykes

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

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“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 - seems that only children weep.” - Atticus