| Atticus: sin to kill a mockingbird | “remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” |
| Miss Maudie Atkinson: Mockingbirds and why it is a sin to kill one | “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. …That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” |
| Atticus: Scout and how she diffused the dangerous situation with the lynch mob | “So it took an eight-year-old to bring ’em to their senses, didn’t it?” ‘said Atticus.’ “That proves something – that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children” |
| Atticus: No evidence to charge Tom Robinson | “The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place. … The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this court-room is.” |
| Scout – Dill thinking he was married to her | ‘He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back and out and kissed me swiftly’ |
| Aunt Alexandra: Didn’t want the children to attend the trial | “I didn’t think it wise in the first place to let them” |
| Scout: Not knowing what rape is | “What’s rape?” |
| Atticus: Children and that you should answer them | “When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But you don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.” |
| Atticus and Scout: Charging Boo would be like shooting a mockingbird | “Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” |
To Kill a Mockingbird – Innocence Quotes
January 26, 2020