Quote by Harper Lee
As you grow older, youll see white men cheat black men every day o

As you grow older, youll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and dont 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. – Harper Lee

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I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. – Harper Lee

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Folks dont like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. Youre not gonna change any of them by talking right, theyve got to want to learn themselves, and when they dont want to learn theres nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language. – Harper Lee

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee

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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesnt see Negroes hanging from its branches. – Jean Genet

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When it is not on the side of civil rights, then the law is not right, it is white. – Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

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Where do you think Id be next week if I didnt know how to shout and holler and make the public take notice? Id be poor and Id probably be down in my home town, washing windows or running an elevator and saying – Muhammad Ali

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In the racial picture things will never be as they once were. History has reached a turning point, here and over the world. – Medgar Evers

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