I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.
("To Kill a Mockingbird")
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Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.Harper Lee
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We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry…
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As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it -- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
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I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
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