To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis

Throughout all of To Kill a Mockingbird there a lot of important quotes. All of which including the long speech that Atticus makes in the courtroom. He says things like “We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe.” he is saying a pretty important thing. He means that in the world, there is what racists and those who are prejudice known as “equal but separate”, which is not equal, it is actually more racist. if anyone can find a way to put the phrase “take a walk in the other person's shoes”, in any way possible, Atticus can-and did. Atticus Finch always referred back to the motto because it had a lot to do with all of the topics of the book-even before Tom Robinson came into the book. Boo Radley,

He takes the pity that the jury has for Mayella and shifts the focus of pity to Tom for he is, in Atticus’ own words, “a quiet, respectable, humble Negro,” (page 207)

Atticus provides the courtroom with a mind blowing speech about the innocence of Tom Robinson and the freedom or black men and women. B.Cases that always are racist can indeed change a whole community, which already has, and it births a new form of racism that permits people not to accept people who are not like them, and that includes blacks as well. Blacks are racist against whites. Whites are racist towards blacks. The system of racism is like a tug of war; you can keep tugging, but if you tug too hard almost everyone on the opposing side will fall. If you are strong enough, you will most likely win. the speech that Atticus provides is very long, but there is a certain part that he speaks of what I said was a like a “tug of war.” He

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education, promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious—because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe—some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cake than others—some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of men.” (Pages