To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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.

‘The Ku Klux’s gone,’ said Atticus. ‘It’ll never come back.’

You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.