Harper Lee Quotes

Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

We can scarcely hate any one that we know.

Perhaps it is as well to keep an open and charitable mind, and to try to understand why people do things instead of condemning the acts themselves

No one is born with hate in their heart.

I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

I'm a big believer in human nature.

The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

You just try to be nice to everybody and treat them all the same. Treat them how you would want to be treated.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more and be kinder and to not judge someone by the colour of their skin or any other thing.

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

He who hates vice hates men.

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

If you would judge, understand.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.'

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

For me, there is only love and fear.

If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.