Harper Lee

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• 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.

• Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

• Things are never as bad as they seem.

• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

• Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

• Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

• Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

• 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.

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