Injustice To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes

If you think Atticus Finch went home at night and slept easy because he knew he was doing the right thing, you're wrong ... Because even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone. Because every woman and man, no matter their color or their religion, is entitled to a good defense. And because Jem and Scout would grow up to be like their father, spreading his wisdom, understanding his compassion and sharing his strength which are the only, the only weapons we have against injustice. ~ Kristen Ashley

You taste injustice, even if it's fictional, really taste it,it has a way of doing that. Sometimes, you can never put the shoe on the other foot. We can't go back in time and know what it was like to be a black person then. Even today, when things are supposed to be so much better, not one of you can understand what it's like to be black, to live with the knowledge of what happened to your ancestry and still face injustice. But that book makes us taste it and, reading it, we know how bitter that taste is and we know we don't like it. But that bitter wakes you up, and when you wake up, you open your mind to things in this world, you make yourself think. Then you'll decide you don't like the taste of injustice, not for you and not for anyone, and you'll understand that even though all the battles can't be won, that doesn't mean you won't fight. ~ Kristen Ashley

I found the role model to inspire me to handle such situations with more grace, maturity, and, most important of all, results...

I reread Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, and I realized I had found my hero in Atticus Finch...

It hit me like a thunderbolt. You see, Atticus knows everything Huck knows. He knows society is racist. He recognizes the violence, hypocrisy, injustice, and ignorance of society. He knows he is going to lose.

But Atticus does not light out for the territory. He goes into the courtroom to fight the fight as best as he can, because it is what he believes in. He doesn't do it because of the law, or the rules, or what people will think. He has his own code, and he lives by it as well as he can.

I still cry when I think about this. My classroom is my courtroom. I am going to lose more than I win. There are many times when, despite my efforts, I will lose children to poverty, ignorance, and, most tragically, a society that embraces mediocrity...

I've made plenty of mistakes since rediscovering Atticus, but I've always been able to hold my head up to my students. Atticus showed me the way. ~ Rafe Esquith

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. ~ Harper Lee

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents. ~ Harper Lee

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. ~ Harper Lee

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'. ~ Harper Lee

I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird. ~ Kathryn Stockett

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them. ~ Harper Lee

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. ~ Harper Lee

This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. ~ John Simon

Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud. ~ Jim Trelease

I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book. ~ Stephen Chbosky

But in the book," I say, "the mockingbird is supposed to be a symbol of innocence. That's why it's a sin to kill one."
"Who says it's a symbol of innocence?" asks Mort.
"Teachers," I tell him. "Book reviewers, critics --"
"Wikipedia," Elena calls from behind the window display. ~ Paul Acampora

I never understood her preoccupation with heredity. Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was. ~ Harper Lee

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face. ~ Mary-Louise Parker

Where did you hide your Mockingbirds?" he asks.
"Ornithology," she replies.
"You hid TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD with the bird books?" I ask.
Elena shrugs. "I was being ironic. ~ Paul Acampora

Try fighting with your head for a change ...
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning. ~ Harper Lee

Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson ~ Matt Groening

Well, for starters, Abraham Lincoln didn't write 'To Kill a Mockingbird. ~ Jeff Kinney

Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along? ~ Harper Lee

Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I've never heard ~ Bob Marley

You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~ Harper Lee

We have travelled into the past and returned to find that our present is not quite the same as we left it. Atticus Finch will never again be the white knight we once thought him.
And yet the mockingbird still sings - no longer a song of innocence, but maybe one of experience; a song that combines sorrow, forgiveness - and, ultimately, a kind of hope. ~ Joanne Harris

I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.' ~ Margaret Stohl

To kill a mockingbird is a sin ~ Harper Lee

As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from the publication of "To Kill A Mockingbird" was that novel so that if we say, what conversation can we have that would lead us on a road of tolerance, and teachers have decided that if you're going to teach values in a school in America, the answer that American teachers at all kinds of schools have come up with, just let Harper Lee teach "To Kill A Mockingbird." And then all the teacher has to do is stand back and guide the discussion. ~ Wayne Flynt

The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice. ~ Marty Rubin

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. ~ Harper Lee

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession. ~ Nancy Grace

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion. ~ Anthony Bourdain

Everything human beings can imagine has been thrown at injustice, and injustice just absorbs it, and enlarges. ~ Greg Baxter

If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned. ~ Derrick Jensen

Had her conduct been more friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her. She was a pretty little thing. ~ Harper Lee

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' ~ Berkeley Breathed

When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns. ~ Tom Brokaw

(Brin) 'How good is your lawyer, on a scale of Atticus Finch to Franklin and Bash? ~ Lisa Henry

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time. ~ Mary Badham

I've been thinking ... Maybe you're a mockingbird ... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds ... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems. ~ Charles M. Schulz

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice. ~ Plato

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk one. ~ Harper Lee

Injustice on one life is injustice on all lives. ~ Abhijit Naskar

I couldn't go to church and worship God if I didn't try to help that man. ~ Harper Lee

Atticus said to Jem one day, "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corn cribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. ~ Harper Lee

So my name is Scout. Yeah, my mom read To Kill a Mockingbird. Leave it to her to think 5th grade required reading is totally deep. ~ Catherynne M Valente

I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque. ~ Sissy Spacek

It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday. ~ Rand Paul

The wagon went down from the bluffs into the wooded creek bottoms, and high in a treetop a mockingbird began to sing.
"I never heard a mockingbird sing so early," said Ma, and Pa answered, softly, "He is telling us good-by. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice. ~ Desmond Tutu

I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.' ~ Nick Robinson

Injustice won't destroy our world, indifference to injustice will. ~ Abhijit Naskar

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice. ~ Benjamin Tucker

'To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time. ~ Mark Mothersbaugh

Injustice anywhere is an injustice anywhere ~ R. Kelly

The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice. ~ James Cook

Meghan and I talked about music - she loved Ella Fitzgerald. "What about all the hip acts that college kids love? Do you like any of them?"
"Like who?"
"I don't know all their names. Snoop Diggity Do and all those hip cats." Meghan shook her head and laughed. We talked about movies - she loved anything made before 1964. No wonder I thought she was older; she was an old soul in a young body.
"So what's your favorite movie?" I asked.
"To Kill a Mockingbird." My mother would have liked Meghan. She made my father and me watch To Kill a Mockingbird with her when I was in first grade. It must have been the twentieth time she'd seen it, but she still cried at the parts that made her weepy-eyed the first nineteen times. ~ Donna VanLiere

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. ~ John Rawls

Justice doesn't mean absence of injustice, it means the presence of the determination to stand up to injustice. ~ Abhijit Naskar

'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me. ~ Jessica Marais

When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and it was just a great experience. ~ Raymond Cruz

Silence in the face of injustice, is injustice in action. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyways, following Jem about ... He only grew closer to Jem. (Lee 55) ~ Harper Lee

If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it ~ Democritus

When civilians kill, it is called murder. When governments kill, it is called pragmatism. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. ~ Thomas Huxley

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way? ~ William Stafford

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. ~ H.L. Mencken

Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy. ~ Bill Ayers

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice. ~ Paul Robeson

Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? ~ Lillian Hellman

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. ~ Harry Truman

Eradicating the signs of injustice does not eradicate injustice. It hides the fact that humanity can be cruel to each other. They are symbols of a point in time when one segment of society tried to dominate its beliefs over another. ~ Don Rittner

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill. ~ Thomas Carlyle

And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than a her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, an a weight, and a temperature, and a texture, and a very bad taste. ~ Jonathan Franzen

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions. ~ Jerry Spinelli

I laid my lips against hers and smiled. "When I come home, I'm building you your dream library. With tall ladders and everything. And then I'm going to make love to you somewhere between The Odyssey and To Kill a Mockingbird. ~ Brittainy C. Cherry

It's a total injustice. Things like that happen in life. ~ LaVar Arrington

Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it. ~ Pierce Brown

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift. ~ Bryant McGill

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. ~ Jane Welsh Carlyle

I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader. ~ Karin Slaughter

The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice. ~ John Nichol

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations. ~ Deborah Eisenberg

Apathy is sustainable only as long as injustice doesn't harm us--and we don't care that it's harming others. Apathy lasts only until injustice knocks on our door, and we're forced to look into its eyes. ~ Ken Wytsma

I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. ~ Harper Lee

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself. ~ Bayard Rustin

I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. ~ Edmund Burke

Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice. ~ Michael Lewis

We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice. ~ Euripides

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself. ~ Ibn Khaldun

No man suffers injustice without learning,
vaguely but surely, what justice is. ~ Isaac Rosenfeld

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself. ~ Ralph Ellison

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. ~ Clarence Darrow

The greatest injustice I have suffered has come under the pretense of love. ~ Lang Leav

Injustice against some...is injustice against all! ~ Timothy Pina

I consider myself an aware person who is sensitive to injustice. ~ Dacia Maraini

I had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood. ~ Michelle Rodriguez

My mother read it when she was a teenager," Henry said, picking a piece of lint off his lap. "To Kill a Mockingbird. The day she accepted my father's proposal, she gave him a copy and told him that Atticus Finch is the kind of father she wants her husband to be. ~ Ophelia London

I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out. ~ Tom Brokaw