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“It was an ancient paint-peeled frame building, the only church in Maycomb with a steeple and bell, called First Purchase because it was paid for from the first earnings of freed slaves. Negroes worshipped in it on Sundays and white men gambled in it on weekdays” (118)

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“‘The thing is, what I’m tryin’ to say is ---they do get on a lot better without me, I can’t help them any.  They ain’t mean.  They buy me everything I want, but it’s now-you’ve-got–it-go-play-with-it.  .  .’” (143).

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“‘They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,’ said Atticus, ‘but 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’” (105).

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“That Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me. The idea that she had a separate existence outside our household was a novel one, to say nothing of her having command of two languages” (125).

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“‘Now don’t you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man’” (208).

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“‘Hey, Boo,’ I said” (270).

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“‘Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children ... you children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was enough’” (157).

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“I saw something only a lawyer’s child could be expected to see, could be expected to watch for, and it was like watching Atticus walk into the street, raise a rifle to his shoulder and pull the trigger, but watching all the time knowing that the gun was empty” (211). - Max Valencia

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“He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia bush Mrs. Dubose owned, until the ground was littered with green buds and leaves” (103).

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‘They don’t belong anywhere. Colored folks won’t have ‘em because they’re half white; white folks won’t have ‘em ‘cause they’re colored, so they’re just in-betweens, don’t belong anywhere’” (161).

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“‘Atticus don’t ever do anything to Jem and me in the house that he don’t do in the yard’” (46).

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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 said’” (76).

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“‘Now don’t you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man’” (208).

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“I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with” (41).

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“‘There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into,’ murmured Calpurnia, and she spat meditatively into the yard. We looked at her in surprise, for Calpurnia rarely commentated on the ways of white people” (12).

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“”Hasn’t snowed in Maycomb since Appomattox. It’s bad children like you makes the seasons change’” (65).

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“Maybe I can tell you,’ said Miss Maudie.  ‘If your father’s anything, he’s civilized in his heart.  Marksmanship’s a gift of God, a talent- oh, you have to practice to make it perfect but shootin’s different from playing the piano or the like.  I think that God has given him an unfair advantage over most living things.  I guess he decided he wouldn’t shoot till he had to, and he had to today. People in their right minds never take pride in their talents’” (98).

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“‘Of course I do. Don’t say nigger, Scout.  That’s common’” (75).

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“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived” (100).

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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 said’” (76).

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“‘It’s not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do’” (126).

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"I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time...it’s because he to stay inside’” (227).

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“‘It’s like bein’ a caterpillar in a cocoon, what’s what it is,’ he said. ‘Like somethin’ asleep wrapped up in a warm place. I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that’s what they seemed like’” (215).

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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 they do it – seems that only children weep’” (213).

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‘But we can’t have communion with you all—’

Apparently deciding that it was easier to define a primitive baptistry than closed communion, Miss Maudie said:  ‘Foot-washers believe anything that’s pleasure is a sin.  Did you know some of ‘em came out of the woods one Saturday and passed by this place and told me me and my flowers were going to hell?’” (44).

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“I never understood her preoccupation with heredity.  Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer he was” (130).

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“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, and Maycomb thought he was trying to write an editorial poetical enough to be reprinted in the The Montgomery Advertiser” (241).

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“‘The main one is, if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this country in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again’” (75).

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"Don’t you remember me, Mr. Cunningham?  I’m Jean Louise Finch.  You brought us some hickory nuts one time, remember?’ I began to sense the futility one feels when unacknowledged by a chance acquaintance.

‘I go to school with Walter,’ I began again.  ‘He’s your boy, ain’t he? Ain’t he, sir?" (153)

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“’…it’s sort of like making a turtle come out…’

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‘Were you ever a turtle, huh?’” (14).

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“This time Judge Taylor’s gavel came down with a bang, and as it did the overhead lights went on in the courtroom. Darkness had not come, but the afternoon sun had left the windows” (194).

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“‘…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 you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.  You rarely win, but sometimes you do.  Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her.  According to her views. She died beholden to nothing and nobody.  She was the bravest person I ever knew’” (112).

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“Inside, surrounded by wads of damp cotton, was a white, waxy, perfect camellia. It was a Snow-on-the-Mountain” (111).

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“‘Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist—’

‘That’s what you are, ain’t it?’

‘My shell’s not that hard, child. I’m just a Baptist.’

‘Don’t you all believe in foot-washing?’

‘We do. At home in the bathtub.’

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“‘Dill?’

‘Mm?’

‘Why do you reckon Boo Radley’s never run off?’

Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me.

‘Maybe he doesn’t have anywhere to run off to. . .’” (144).

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“Negroes worshipped in it on Sundays and white men gambled in it on weekdays” (118).

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“‘Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home—’’ (247).

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“‘Atticus, when they finally saw him why he hadn’t done any of those things…Atticus, he was real nice…Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them’” (281)

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“‘...the assumption -- the evil assumption -- that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber’” (204).

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“When she squinted down at me the tiny lines around her eyes deepened. ‘There’s  some folks who don’t eat like us,’  she whispered fiercely, ‘but you ain’t called on to contradict ‘em at the table when they don’t.  That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?’” (24).

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“‘Jem, see if you can stand in Bob Ewell’s shoes a minute. I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial, if had any to begin with...So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that’s something I’ll gladly take’” (218).

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“The Colored balcony ran along three walls of the courtroom like a second-story veranda, and from it we could see everything” (164).

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“‘You know what’s going to happen as well as I do, Jack, and I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it without bitterness, and most of all, without catching Maycomb’s usual disease’” (88).

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“‘Over here we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced. Prejudice,’ she enunciated carefully. ‘There are no better people in the world than the Jews, and why Hitler doesn’t think so is a mystery to me’” (245).

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“‘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.  And I thought to myself, well, we’re making a step--- it’s just a baby-step, but it’s a step’” (216).

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-Rebecca Kim
“Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square”(5).

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“A dirt road ran from the highway past the dump, down to a small Negro settlement some five hundred yards beyond the Ewells’” (171).

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“Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough” (279).

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“Somehow, if I fought Cecil I would let Atticus down. Atticus so rarely asked Jem and me to do something for him, I could take being called a coward for him” (77).

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-Rebecca Kim
“‘Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?’” (276).

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“‘I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’” (90).

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“‘Why, one sprig of nut grass can ruin a whole yard. Look here. When it comes fall this dries up and the wind blows it all over Maycomb County!’” (42).

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“‘Mr. Radley, ah—did you put cement in that hole in that tree down yonder?’

‘Yes,’ he said.  ‘I filled it up.’

‘Why’s you do it, sir?’

‘Tree’s dying.  You plug ‘em with cement when they’re sick.  You ought to know that, Jem.’

‘Is that tree dyin’?’

‘Why no, son, I don’t think so.  Look at the leaves, they’re all green and full, no brown patches anywhere-’

‘It ain’t even sick?’

‘That tree’s as healthy as you are, Jem.  Why?’

‘Mr. Nathan Radley said it was dyin’’

‘Well maybe it is. I’m sure Mr. Radley knows more about his trees that we do’” (62).

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“‘This case is as simple as black and white (203)’”

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“‘First of all,’ he said, ‘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-’

‘Sir?’

‘-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it’” (30).

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“Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (13).

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“‘But sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of, oh, your father’” (45).

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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 said’” (76).

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“We don’t write in the first grade, we print. You won’t learn to write until you’re in the third grade” (18).