I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

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

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

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.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

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.

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.