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.
Harper LeeMr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.
Harper LeeAs I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.
Harper LeeYou can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
Harper LeeThe remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.
Harper Lee