I do my best to love everybody

For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

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.

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

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

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.