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"**Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird**." ~Harper Lee, //To Kill a Mockingbird,// Chapter 10, At ticus Finch to daughter Scout

"**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."** ~Harper Lee, //To Kill a Mockingbird//, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus


 * "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."** ~Harper Lee, //To Kill a Mockingbird,// Chapter 3, Atticus Finch to daughter Scout

"**Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, 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, //To Kill a Mockingbird,// Chapter 10, Miss Maudie Atkinson to Scout


 * "I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off." "You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem. "Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."** ~Harper Lee, //To Kill a Mockingbird,// Chapter 22