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We believe Harper Lee suggests how unfair the legal system is. She wants change and that's how Atticus is created. Lee talks about a character who believes that everyone is equal and that the case is absorbed because the only reason he is going to be be convicted is because of the racist jury as a way of expressing her hope for this world.

This leaves us thinking that there is still a lot of work that needs to be done in order to make our legal system fair, and our world more equal. The goal is for there to be no prejudice in the world. “All men are equal.”

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Text to Show ALL Men Should Be Equal, but are not.

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Text to Show ALL Men Should Be Equal, but are not.

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"One more thing gentleman, before I quit. Thomas Edison once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the competitive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace,1935, for the certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that all people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with industrious-- because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe--some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they are born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others--some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men." (273-274)

This shows everyone is equal but at the same time not all are equal, many people have different things that gives them an advantage in life and others don't have that advantage.

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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 to a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentleman is court. (pg. 274)
This quote shows justice because he says how everyone should be equal in court.

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“‘He’s just like our preacher,’ said Jem, ‘but why do you all sing hymns that way?’ ‘Linin’?’ she asked. ‘Is that what it is?’ ‘Yeah, it’s called linin’. They’ve done it that way as long as I can remember.’ Jem said it looked like they could save the collection money for a year and get some hymn-books. Calpurnia laughed. ‘Wouldn’t do any good,’ she said. ‘They can’t read.’” (pg. 165)

This passage demonstrates how uneducated Blacks are compared to White people. They have a disadvantage and most of them can not even read or speak correct English! To Jem and Scout, who take their hymn-books and education for granted, Calpurnia’s church is odd. It is a good experience for them to witness Blacks having a disadvantage in life so they become more aware.

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Notice how unfair Tom Robinson's case is:

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Notice how unfair Tom Robinson's case is:

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“To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. This case is as simple as black and white. ‘The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place. It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is’” (pg. 271).
Tom should be free, but because of the racist town, he is not.