To Kill a Mockingbird: Racism quotations?

Sharri Scalley: Here's a whole set, from Shmoop.

Solomon Belback: "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans, in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit them, 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 gardens or 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" (94 Atticus, Miss Maudie)This is one of the quotes that is the focal point of the entire book. Reflecting on the fact that Tom Robinson, a black man did nothing wrong, he did not rape Mayella Ewell and still he was blamed for it, tried to escape and was shot. Tom Robinson was the mockingbird."The main one is. If I didn't [defend Tom Robinson in court] I couldn't hold my head up in town" (80 Atticus)All of the black negroes in Maycomb were depending upon Atticus to get Tom off of the charges that he rap! ed a white woman. If he didn't try then he would be guilty of not defending him in court. A white man defending a black man was not looked kindly upon during the 1930's."Yes, suh. I felt sorry for her. She seemed to try more'n the rest of them." "You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?" (200 Tom Robinson, Mr. Gilmer)How could someone with a house and with friends feel sorry for someone without a very good house, and no friends. When he, Tom came from a good family and she, Mayella came from an abusive one. A black man feel sorry for a white woman... She was the one that tempted a *****......Show more