Important Quotes
Find the following quotes in the novel. What do each of these:
a. Show about the character who said it
b. Represent the themes of the novel
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"First of all," he [Atticus] said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot
better with all kinds of folks. 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."
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Miss Maudie: "Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets."
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Atticus: "This case, Tom Robinson's case, is something that goes to the essence of a
man's conscience-Scout, I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that
man."
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Atticus: "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 you see it through no matter what."
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Calpernia: "It is not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike- in the second place,
folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em.
You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn
themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your
mouth shut or talk their language."
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Scout: "Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the
best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely
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expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was."
Reverend Sykes: "Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'."
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Atticus: "So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra
beating, that's something I'll gladly take. He had to take it out on somebody and I'd rather it
be me than that houseful of children out there."
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Atticus: "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
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man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white
man is trash."
Aunt Alexendra: "'Don't be silly, Jean Louise,' said Aunt Alexandra. 'The thing is, you can
scrub Walter Cunningham till her shines, you can put him in shoes and a new suit, but he'll
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never be like Jem. Besides, there's a drinking streak in that family a mile wide. Finch women
aren't interested in that sort of people.'"