Harper Lee Inspirational Quotes

Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. 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.

Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.

Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his face was cloudy. He was going in to one of his declines, and I grew wary. His brows came together; his mouth became a thin line. He was silent for a while. That is what I thought, too," he said at last, "when I was your age. If there is just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go ut of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I am beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley stayed shut up in the house all this time...it's because he wants to stay inside

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?

Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my hand, opened the door, enter inside, and shut the door behind him. I never saw him again.

The only way in which all men in America are equal, is in the courtroom - Atticus

satu hal yang tidak tunduk pada mayoritas adalah nurani seseorang

Things are never as bad as they seem

If we followed our feelings all the time we´d be like cats chasin´ their tails.

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

atticus finch is husband material

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down

From now on it’ll be everybody less one.

I was to be a ham

She wore a smile like a loaded gun.

Bir cümleden sıfatları kaldırırsak geriye gerçekler kalır.

Everybody did; most of the first grade had failed it last year.

...you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change... it's good one, even if it does resist learning.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Scout," said Atticus, “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 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.

Regarding people who were difficult to accept or respect, Nelle said, " Our response to these people represents our earthly test. And I think, that these people enrich the wonder of our lives. It is they who most need our kindness, because the seem less deserving. After all, anyone can love people who are lovely

I turned to go home. Street lights winked down the street all the way to town. I had never seen our neighborhood from this angle. There were Miss Maudie’s, Miss Stephanie’s—there was our house, I could see the porch swing—Miss Rachel’s house was beyond us, plainly visible. I could even see Mrs. Dubose’s. I looked behind me. To the left of the brown door was a long shuttered window. I walked to it, stood in front of it, and turned around. In daylight, I thought, you could see to the postoffice corner. Daylight… in my mind, the night faded. It was daytime and the neighborhood was busy. Miss Stephanie Crawford crossed the street to tell the latest to Miss Rachel. Miss Maudie bent over her azaleas. It was summertime, and two children scampered down the sidewalk toward a man approaching in the distance. The man waved, and the children raced each other to him. It was still summertime, and the children came closer. A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishingpole behind him. A man stood waiting with his hands on his hips. Summertime, and his children played in the front yard with their friend, enacting a strange little drama of their own invention. It was fall, and his children fought on the sidewalk in front of Mrs. Dubose’s. The boy helped his sister to her feet, and they made their way home. Fall, and his children trotted to and fro around the corner, the day’s woes and triumphs on their faces. They stopped at an oak tree, delighted, puzzled, apprehensive. Winter, and his children shivered at the front gate, silhouetted against a blazing house. Winter, and a man walked into the street, dropped his glasses, and shot a dog. Summer, and he watched his children’s heart break. Autumn again, and Boo’s children needed him. 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.

Niçin içiyormuş gibi yaptığımı soruyorsun. Çok basit. Bazı kimsleler yaşadığım hayatı beğenmiyorlar. Canları cehenneme... Hiçbiri umrumda değil. Ama yine de olmuyor. Anlaşıldı mı? -Hayır efendim. -Onların eline bir neden veriyorum, tamam mı. Böylede olayları bir nedene bağlama fırsatını buluyorlar. Arada sırada kasabaya iniyorum. Elimde bir kesekâğıdı olunca millet Raynold yine içiyor diyor. Artık değişmez diyorlar. Elinde değil. Onun için böyle yaşıyor. -Doğru yapmıyorsunuz Bay Raymond... -Doğru değil ama çok yardımı oluyor. Aramızda kalsın Bayan Finch, ben içkiye düşkün değilim. Ama hiçbir zaman yaşadığım hayatı, yaşamak istediğim hayat olduğu için yaşadığımı anlayamayacaklar.

I found the role model to inspire me to handle such situations with more grace, maturity, and, most important of all, results... I reread Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, and I realized I had found my hero in Atticus Finch... It hit me like a thunderbolt. You see, Atticus knows everything Huck knows. He knows society is racist. He recognizes the violence, hypocrisy, injustice, and ignorance of society. He knows he is going to lose. But Atticus does not light out for the territory. He goes into the courtroom to fight the fight as best as he can, because it is what he believes in. He doesn't do it because of the law, or the rules, or what people will think. He has his own code, and he lives by it as well as he can. I still cry when I think about this. My classroom is my courtroom. I am going to lose more than I win. There are many times when, despite my efforts, I will lose children to poverty, ignorance, and, most tragically, a society that embraces mediocrity... I've made plenty of mistakes since rediscovering Atticus, but I've always been able to hold my head up to my students. Atticus showed me the way.

Scout,” said Atticus, “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 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.

...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 ...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it

Uno no conoce a un hombre hasta que se pone dentro de su pellejo y se mueve como si fuera él

-Y le persiguieron pero no podian cogerle porque no sabian qué figura tenía, y, Atticus, cuando por fin le vieron, resultaba que no habia hecho nada de todo aquello... Atticus, era un chico bueno de veras... -La mayoria de personas lo son, Scout, cuando por fin las ves.