“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

1. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. . . –until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

2. “You are too young to understand it, …. But sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of– oh, your father.”

3. “There are just some kind of men who– who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”

4. Miss Maudie looked around, and the shadow of her old grin crossed her face. “Always wanted a new house, Jem Finch. Gives me more yard. Just think, I’ll have more room for my azaleas now!”

5. “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.”

6. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

7. “… You children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was enough.”

8. “Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind an declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.”

9. “Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.”

10. “Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home?”

11. “We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it makes me sad.”