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