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.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

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

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

She was born in the Objective case.