There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the… - Harper Lee

...he said if enough people—a stadium full, maybe—were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord. I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free, but

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.