To Kill a Mockingbird Key Themes and Quotes_1

Prejudice
1. "Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks"
2. "Why, one sprig of nut-grass can ruin a whole yard."
3. "Inside...was a white, waxy, perfect camellia."
4. "It won't be many years, Jean Louise, before you become interested in clothes and boys"
5. "a Drinking Streak, a Gambling Streak, a Mean Streak, a Funny Streak."
6. "evidently taking delight in corrupting a child"
7. "In our courts all men are created equal"
8. "Hypocrites, Mrs Perkins, born hypocrites....At least we don't have that sin on our shoulders"
9. "Over here we don't believe in persecuting anybody."
Education
1. "Miss Caroline caught me writing and told me to tell my father to stop teaching me."
2. "well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics"
3. "wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra"
Innocence and its Removal
1. "did you put cement in that hole in that tree down yonder?"
2. "Children...can spot an evasion quicker than adults"
3. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. ... That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
4. "I don't care one speck. It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way."
5. "You haven't even seen this town, but all you gotta do is step back inside the courthouse."
6. "Because you're children and you can understand it"
7. "and his shoulders jerked as if each 'guilty' was a separate stab between them"
8. He likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds"
9. "Will you take me home?"
Kindness and Courage
1. "thought it sensible to save what she valued most"
2. "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win"
3. "I haven't shot a gun in thirty years-...I'd feel might comfortable if you did now"
4. "I wanted you to see what real courage is....According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew."

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