Tkam Quotes Flashcards
Francis said atticus is
‘Ruining the family’ by taking on the case
Atticus calls prejudice
‘Maycombs usual disease’
Mrs Dubois says
“Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for.”
Aunt Alexander said
“atticus was disgracing the family”
Atticus says the law is biased because
“In our courts when it’s a white mans world against a black mans, the white mans always wins.”
Atticus urges the town to look beyond
‘The evil assumption that all negroes lie, that all negroes are basically immoral beings.’
Miss gates
‘It was time somebody taught em a lesson’
Scout wonders how people could ‘turn around and be ugly about folks right at home’
The town hates the radleys because
‘The radleys kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb.”
Miss Maddie feels empathy for Tom because
‘It’s morbid watching a poor devil on trial for his life. Look at those folks, it’s a Roman carnival.’
The result of the court case was described by miss Maddie as
‘A baby step towards fair mindedness’
When thinking about her childish interactions with boo
‘Scout feels a twinge of remorse when passing by the old place at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to mr Radley’
Atticus teaches empathy to scout by advising her
‘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.’
People who are ethnically mixed are disregarded in Maycomb society because
‘They don’t belong anywhere. Coloured folk won’t have em because they’re half white, white folk won’t have em because they’re coloured, so they’re just inbetweens, don’t belong anywhere.’
Mr Dolphus fabricates a drinking condition because
‘They could never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I wanna live.’
Mockingbird quote
‘Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’
‘Mockingbirds don’t do one thing for us except make music for us to enjoy.’
At the end of the novel scout realises
‘Bringing boo to court would be sort of like shooting a mockingbird wouldn’t it?’
Mr Dolphus Raymond says that when dill reaches adulthood he won’t cry
‘About the simple hell people give other people, without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give coloured folks, without even stopping to think that they’re people too.’
When jem discovers the outcome of the trial he says
‘How could they do it, how could they’
Maycomb was
‘An old town but it was a tired old town when I first knew it’
Fine folks
‘They did the best they could with the sense they had, and they had been living on the same plot of ground in Maycomb for five generations’
Aunt Alexander suggested to scout
‘That I should be a ray of sunshine in my fathers lonely life. I suggested one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well.’
Atticus feels he must defend Tom because
‘If I didn’t defend him I couldn’t hold my head up in town, I couldn’t represent the country is legislature. I couldn’t even tell you or jem not to do something again.’
Tom robinsons case is
‘Something that goes to the essence of a mans conscience. I couldn’t go to church and worship God if I didn’t try to help that man.’
Atticus on morality
‘Most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong, they entitled to think that and they’re entitled to their own opinion but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.’
Scout stopped the lynch mob because
‘It took an eight year old child to bring them to their senses, didn’t it? That proves something, a gang of wild criminals can be stopped simply because they’re still human.’
