"One Race" - To kill a Mockingbird - Found poetry

You may think otherwise, but,

Some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral,

some Negro men are not to be trusted around women—

black or white

be he any color of the rainbow,

There is not a person

who has never told a lie,

who has never done an immoral thing,

there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire

Instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand

you just hold your head high and keep those fists down

It's when you know you're licked before you begin,

but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom,

people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

they couldn't be fair if they tried.

but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—

I think there's just one kind of folks -

Folks.

this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men--

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience



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