Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't. - Harper Lee

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

As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.