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"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."
"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
"Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit."
"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts."
"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."
"A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it."
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"Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."
"I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."
"The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here."
"Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent."
"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."
"People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions."
"There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing.'Your stomach's growling,' I said.'I know it,' he said."
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