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Quotes by Harper Lee

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
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.
– Harper Lee
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
– Harper Lee
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
– Harper Lee
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.
– Harper Lee
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
– Harper Lee
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
– Harper Lee
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
– Harper Lee
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
– Harper Lee
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
– Harper Lee
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
– Harper Lee
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.
– Harper Lee
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
– Harper Lee