[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right - Harper Lee

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but 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.

A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know — doesn't say much for them, does it?