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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."

"If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!"

"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."

"To live consciously and courageously, to resonate with kindness and respect, to awaken the true spirit within others and to leave this world better than it was when i found it."
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"They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much."

"I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement."

"I wanted you to see something about her-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. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew."

"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them."

"I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world."

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