Adevaratul curaj este sa stii caesti invins de la bun inceput, dar sa nu renunti totusi la lupta.
Harper LeeBah, no es así. La gente saca niños el uno de otro. Pero hay ese hombre, además... ese hombre que tiene una infinidad de niños esperando que les despierten; él les da vida con un soplo...
Dill estaba disparado otra vez. Por su cabeza soñadora flotaban cosas hermosas. Podía leer dos libros mientras yo leía uno, pero prefería la magia de sus propias invenciones. Sabía sumar y restar más de prisa que el rayo, pero prefería su mundo entre dos luces, un mundo en el que los niños dormían, esperando que fueran a buscarlos como lirios matutinos. Hablando, hablando se dormía a sí mismo, y me arrastraba a mí con él, pero en la quietud de su isla de niebla se levantó la imagen confusa de una casa gris con unas puertas pardas, tristes.
About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?"
"I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.
Tags: humor
To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place... It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses, whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. Now, there is circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewel was beaten - savagely, by someone who led exclusively with his left. And Tom Robinson now sits before you having taken the oath with the only good hand he possesses... his RIGHT. I have nothing but pity in my heart for the chief witness for the State. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance. But my pity does not extend so far as to her putting a man's life at stake, which she has done in an effort to get rid of her own guilt. Now I say "guilt," gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She's committed no crime - she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She must destroy the evidence of her offense. But what was the evidence of her offense? Tom Robinson, a human being. She must put Tom Robinson away from her. Tom Robinson was to her a daily reminder of what she did. Now, what did she do? She tempted a *****. She was white, and she tempted a *****. She did something that, in our society, is unspeakable. She kissed a black man. Not an old uncle, but a strong, young ***** man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards. The witnesses for the State, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption... the evil assumption that all Negroes lie, all Negroes are basically immoral beings, all ***** men are not to be trusted around our women. An assumption that one associates with minds of their caliber, and which is, in itself, gentlemen, a lie, which I do not need to point out to you. And so, a quiet, humble, respectable *****, who has had the unmitigated TEMERITY to feel sorry for a white woman, has had to put his word against TWO white people's! The defendant is not guilty - but somebody in this courtroom is. Now, gentlemen, in this country, our courts are the great levelers. In our courts, all men are created equal. I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and of our jury system - that's no ideal to me. That is a living, working reality! Now I am confident that you gentlemen will review, without passion, the evidence that you have heard, come to a decision and restore this man to his family. In the name of GOD, do your duty. In the name of God, believe... Tom Robinson
Harper LeeTurtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem.
"Were you ever a turtle, huh?
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
Harper Leeпопробуй выучиться одному нехитрому фокусу, Глазастик, - сказал он. - Тогда тебе куда легче будет ладить с самыми разными людьми. Нельзя по-настоящему понять человека, пока не станешь на его точку зрения...
- Это как?
- Надо влезть в его шкуру и походить в ней.
(Аттикус Финч - Глазастику Финч)
Tags: empathy psychology
они все уставились на меня в простодушной уверенности, что из... близкого знакомства рождается взаимопонимание.
Harper LeeFolks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
Harper LeeTags: classic-literature
Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
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