Who said it? Part 1, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."

• Atticus

• Calpurnia

• Scout

• Jem

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“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 corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.”


• Atticus

• Miss Maudie

• Miss Stephanie

• Mr. Avery

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”


• Atticus

• Scout

• Dill

• Miss Maudie

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

• Atticus

• Mrs. Dubose

• Scout

• Uncle Jack

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty!”


• Calpurnia

• Mrs. Dubose

• Miss Maudie

• Miss Caroline

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

• Uncle Jack

• Atticus

• Miss Maudie

• Nathan Radley

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“...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.”


• Miss Rachel

• Miss Maudie

• Mrs. Dubose

• Miss Caroline

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“There are just some kind of men who—who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”


• Miss Maudie

• Atticus

• Miss Rachel

• Mrs. Dubose

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.”

• Heck Tate

• Atticus

• Mr. Avery

• Nathan Radley

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Do-o-o Jee-sus, Dill Harris! Gamblin' by my fishpool? I'll strip poker you, sir!"

• Miss Rachel

• Calpurnia

• Mrs. Dubose

• Miss Maudie

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3