Year 11

To Kill a Mockingbird Unseen Quotes

1. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb
inside of his skin and walk around in it." Notes:
2. "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in
his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no
matter what." Notes:
3. "People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." Notes:
4. "There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of
them." Notes:
5. "There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never
possible." Notes:
6. "Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and
white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men ." Notes:
7. "I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and
when they do it--seems that only children weep." Notes:
8. Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it.... the day was twenty-four hours long,
but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy...and no money to
buy it with." Notes:
9. "No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets
held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem,
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks" Notes:
10."I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least thats what they seemed like ."
Notes:
11."I have nothing but pity in my heart for the chief witness for the State. She is the victim of cruel poverty
and ignorance. ." Notes:
12."I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about
them until I was forced to." Notes:
13."She did something every child has done-she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her. But
in this case she was no child hiding stolen contraband: she struck out at her victim-of necessity she must
put him away from her-he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the
evidence of her offense. ." Notes:
14."There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal there is one human institution
that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant
man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. ." Notes: