10 Beloved Quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird

In 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird first hit book stands in the United States, leaving a deep impression during a tumultuous time of protest and defiance. Critics and activists alike lauded the book for its frank yet sensitive and somehow reassuring treatment of race and inequality in the South. Here was a coming-of-age story told from the perspective of 6-year-old Scout Finch who learned about justice and compassion from her heroic father, Atticus. Author Harper Lee, famously reclusive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction that year, the book became an enduring classic of American literature, and Lee never published another novel. Until now...