Quotes From Atticus Finch
- As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it -- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
- It's an agreement reached by mutual consent. Now, here's the way it works. You concede the necessity of goin' to school, we'll keep right on readin' the same every night, just as we always have. Is that a bargain?
- You're gonna hear some ugly talk about this in school. But I want you to promise me one thing: That you won't get into fights over it, no matter what they say to you.
- Thank you Arthur. Thank you for my children.
- There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.
- Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
- 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.
- I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it without bitterness... I just hope that Jem and Scout come to me for their answers instead of listening to the town. I hope they trust me enough.
