On National Teacher Day, meet the 2024-25 Kenan Fellows
To Kill a Mocking Bird Quotes.pdf
1. “You never really understand a
person until you consider things
from his point of view... Until you
climb inside of his skin and walk
around in it.”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
2. “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
see it through no matter what.”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
3. “ P E O P L E G E N E R A L L Y S E E
W H A T T H E Y L O O K F O R , A N D
H E A R W H A T T H E Y L I S T E N
F O R . ”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
4. “Atticus told me to delete the
adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
5. “The one thing that doesn't
abide by majority rule is a
person's conscience.”
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6. “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man
is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of
(another)... There are just some kind of men who
- who're so busy worrying about the next world
they've never learned to live in this one, and you
can look down the street and see the results.”
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
7. “Peopl e i n thei r ri ght mi nds
never take pri de i n thei r
tal ents. ”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
8. “They're certainly entitled to think
that, and they're entitled to full
respect for their opinions... but 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.”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
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T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
9. “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”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
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T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
10. “It was times like these when I thought
my father, who hated guns and had
never been to any wars, was the bravest
man who ever lived.”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
11. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make
music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up
people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs,
they don’t do one thing but sing their
hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to
kill a mockingbird.”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
12. “With him, life was routine; without
him, life was unbearable.”
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T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
13. “You just hold your head high
and keep those fists down. No
matter what anybody says to
you, don't you let 'em get your
goat. Try fighting' with your
head for a change."or no
security.”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
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T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
14. “It’s never an insult to be called
what somebody thinks is a bad
name. It just shows you how
poor that person is, it doesn’t
hurt you.”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
15. “ W H E N A C H I L D A S K S Y O U
S O M E T H I N G , A N S W E R H I M ,
F O R G O O D N E S S S A K E . B U T
D O N ' T M A K E A P R O D U C T I O N
O F I T . C H I L D R E N A R E
C H I L D R E N , B U T T H E Y C A N
S P O T A N E V A S I O N F A S T E R
T H A N A D U L T S , A N D E V A S I O N
S I M P L Y M U D D L E S ' E M . ”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
16. “SIMPLY BECAUSE WE WERE LICKED A
HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE WE STARTED IS
NO REASON FOR US NOT TO TRY TO
WIN.”
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
17. “Things are always better in the
morning.”
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
18. “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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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
19. “You can choose your friends but you sho'
can't choose your family, an' they're still kin
to you no matter whether you acknowledge
'em or not, and it makes you look right silly
when you don't.”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
20. “ I W A S B O R N G O O D B U T H A D G R O W N
P R O G R E S S I V E L Y W O R S E E V E R Y
Y E A R . "
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
21. “IT'S NOT TIME TO WORRY YET.”
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
22. “Are you proud of yourself tonight
that you have insulted a total
stranger whose circumstances you
know nothing about?”
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T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
23. “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.”
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
24. “ T h i n g s a r e n e v e r a s b a d a s t h e y
s e e m . ”
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
25. “BAD LANGUAGE IS A STAGE ALL CHILDREN
GO THROUGH, AND IT DIES WITH TIME WHEN
THEY LEARN THEY'RE NOT ATTRACTING
ATTENTION WITH IT.”
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D
26. “ T r y f i g h t i n g w i t h y o u r h e a d f o r
a c h a n g e . . . i t ' s a g o o d o n e , e v e n
i f i t d o e s r e s i s t l e a r n i n g . ”
"Reading through the lens of STEAM"
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― H A R P E R L E E
T O K I L L A M O C K I N G B I R D