The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here.

Harper Lee
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  3. Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - George Gordon Byron

  4. Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin

  5. Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus. - Janvier ChouteuChando

More Quotes By Harper Lee
  1. With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm...

  5. Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

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