Mockingbird Quotes Pt. 2 Flashcards
(22 cards)
The one thing that doesn’t
abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Atticus: 11
I could not possibly hope
to be a lady if I wore breeches.
Scout: 9
In the secret courts of men’s hearts,
Atticus had no case.
Scout: 25
Miss Caroline,
he’s a Cunningham.
Scout: 2
You’ll see white men
cheat black men every day of your life.
Atticus: 23
My Finch, if you was
a nigger like me, you’d be scared too.
Tom: 19
Maycomb’s
usual disease.
Atticus: 9
She did something that in our society is unspeakable.
She kissed a black man.
Atticus: 20
Every town the size of Maycomb
had families like the Ewells.
Scout: 17
Maycomb was
a tired old town.
Scout: 1
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em,
but remember, it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
Atticus: 10
There was no hurry
for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with.
Scout: 1
To Maycomb, Tom’s death
was typical.
Scout: 25
A people determined to preserve
every physical scrap of the past.
Scout: 16
Maycomb had recently been told
it had nothing to fear but fear itself.
(Franklin ROOSEVELT)
Scout: 1
Thus the dicta…
(insert e.g. No Crawford Min’s His Own Business)
were simple guides to daily living.
Scout: 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.
Atticus: 3
I think there’s just
one kind of folks. Folks.
Scout: 23
They fired
a few shots in the air…seventeen bullet holes in him
Atticus: 24
the Bible in one hand
is worse than a whisky bottle [in the other]
Maudie: 5
he always
spoke nicely to me
(Boo)
Maudie: 5
Dill, after all,
he’s just a negro
Scout: 19
