17 Quotations by Harper Lee
- 1. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you ...

- 2. Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by ...

- 3. Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

- 4. Courage... is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it throu ...

- 5. Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

- 6. Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You're not go ...

- 7. I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers ...

- 8. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a g ...

- 9. I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is n ...

- 10. Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it throug ...

- 11. Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to wi ...

- 12. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

- 13. There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads--they couldn't be fair if they tried.

- 14. Things are never as bad as they seem.

- 15. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

- 16. When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake!

- 17. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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