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, he is trash.

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

Where are your pants, son?

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.