To Kill A Mockingbird

Deadly Injustice


You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until- until you climb into his skin and walk in it.
I had never seen our neighborhood from this angle.
In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins.

White people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs; Negroes wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she was white.
“I said come here, nigger, and bust up this chiffarobe for me, I gotta nickel for you.”
She was white, and she tempted a negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. Not an old uncle, but a strong young negro man.
“Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it.”

“In the name of God, believe him.”
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
“In the name of God, believe him.”
But around here once you have a drop of negro blood, that makes you all black.

“Guilty…guilty…guilty…guilty….”
“In the name of God, believe him.”
In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins.

There are some kind of men who-who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
Try fighting with your head for a change…it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning.
“We only reach shore by faith decree.”