Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ch 2.

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. ch 3.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another. ch 5.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ch 11.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ch 11

It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ch 11

ch 20-22

Cry about the simple hell people give other people—without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they’re people, too.

The evil assumption- that all negroes lie, that all negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their calibre. which we know is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson's skin, a lie I do not have to point out to you. You know the truth and the truth is this. Some Negros lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women- black and white. But this is the truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. ch 21.

A court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them. ch 22.