Last week I finished "To Kill a Mockingbird" on my personal "Books on CD" series that I do on my commute home each day. Really enjoyed it, especially with Sissy Spacek as the narrator/voice of Scout. But Atticus was a man of wisdom in many ways, so I thought I'd share with you some of his best words:
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
"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, of how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."
"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 through it no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
“There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.”
"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anyone says to you, don't let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change… it's a good one, even if it does resist learning."
"It's not okay to hate anybody."
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I'm glad you're getting some good "reading" in these days. What's the new book now? I recently enjoyed an audio version of Moby Dick. That's a good one to listen to.
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