Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really k… - Harper Lee

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. 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.

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.