Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping … - Harper Lee

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown, said Dill. Yes, sir, a clown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off. You got it backwards, Dill, said Jem. Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them. Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.