Harper Lee Quotes

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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.

By Harper Lee

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

By Harper Lee

Things are never as bad as they seem.

By Harper Lee

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

By Harper Lee

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

By Harper Lee

Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

By Harper Lee

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

By 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.

By Harper Lee