Quotes Flashcards
“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”
Atticus Finch.
Chapter 23
In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.
Atticus Finch.
Chapter 23
“She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with
Atticus Finch
Chapter 20
Judgement and racism.
“Link, that boy might go to the chair, but he’s not going till the truth’s told.” Atticus’s voice was even. “And you know what the truth is.”
Atticus finch
Chapter 15
Atticus knew straight away that Tom was going to be killed, but he still wanted the truth to be told because it is the right thing. Everyone knew that Tom was doomed because it was his words against Mayellas.
“You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women—black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.”
Atticus Finch
Chapter 20
“Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!”
Mrs Dubose.
Being associate with black people is frowned upon.
When I come to town, […] if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey—that’s why he won’t change his ways. He can’t help himself, that’s why he lives the way he does” (20.15).
He pretends to be drunk in order to justify living with a black woman because people will not accept that he has chosen this life himself.
Mr Raymond.
Chapter 20
We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.”
Atticus finch.
“Things are always better in the morning.”
Optimism, renewal, forgiveness.
