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to kill a mockingbird

“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.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

“shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember—it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

i asked him to pass the damn ham, please.

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  s i n  t o  k i l l  a  m o c k i n g b i r d

GREGORY PECK TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, 1962