The Golden Rule furnishes the true solution of many difficult problems in government and society. Bishop [Atticus G.] Haygood, an ...ex-slaveholder and an ex-Confederate soldier, has given us the best book on the negro question. The title of his work ... tells the whole story: "Our Brother in Black." When reformers, religious teachers, and statesmen, and the general public lift themselves up to the height of the argument contained in that pithy title, there will no longer be a negro problem, nor a problem of capital and labor, nor any question as to the treatment of the criminal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It does not disturb me that those whom I pardon are said to have deserted me so that they might again bring war against me. I... prefer nothing more than that I should be true to myself and they to themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system--that is no ideal to me, it is a living, w...orking reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hi...t 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.... 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »