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Quotes About Courage In To Kill A Mockingbird

Here are the top 99 quotes about courage in To Kill a Mockingbird:

Atticus Finch Quotes

1. “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 see it through no matter what.”
2. “Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It’s knowing 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.”
3. “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fightin’ with your head for a change.”
4. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
5. “It’s not time to worry yet.”
6. “I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system—that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”
7. “I do my best to love everybody.”
8. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
9. “The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.”
10. “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.”
11. “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.”
12. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
13. “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
14. “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions… but 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.”
15. “The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
16. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
17. “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 see it through no matter what.”
18. “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
19. “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”
20. “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
21. “I’m simply defending a Negro—his name’s Tom Robinson.”
22. “I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it without bitterness, and most of all, without catching Maycomb’s usual disease. Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand.”
23. “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.”
24. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
25. “I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.”
26. “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”
27. “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”
28. “It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
29. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
30. “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 see it through no matter what.”
31. “It’s better to know the worst, no matter what.”
32. “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.”
33. “I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system—that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”
34. “In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.”
35. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
36. “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fightin’ with your head for a change.”
37. “I do my best to love everybody.”
38. “It’s not time to worry yet.”
39. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
40. “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.”
41. “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.”
42. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
43. “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
44. “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions… but 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.”
45. “The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
46. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it