General point: no black people hold positions of responsibility in Maycomb.  They are maids, cooks, handymen, garbage collectors.  Reverend Sykes is the exception but his influence does not extend beyond the black community.

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we were licked a hundred years before we started

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Cecil Jacobs: that nigger oughta hang from the water tank

98

Maycomb’s usual disease

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[about Calpurnia] She’s supposed to go round in back

113

Mrs Dubose: your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for

115

a Confederate army relic

120

‘nigger-lover,,,slipped into usage with some people like ourselves.’

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Calpurnia: ‘I don’t want anybody sayin’ I don’t look after my children’

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the men stood back and took off their hats; the women crossed their arms at their waists, weekday gestures of respectful attention

131

‘I wants to know why you bring white chillun to nigger church’ … they got their church, we got our’n

136

Helen’s finding it hard work to get work these days

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Calpurnia: Can’t but about four folks in First Purchase read

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Calpurnia taught Zeebo to read with Blackstone’s Commentaries

138

Calpurnia led a modest double life

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Link Deas: You’ve got everything to lose from this Atticus.  I mean everything.

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

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[the mob go after Tom Robinson]

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‘Don’t talk like that in front of them’ … You said ‘Braxton Underwood despises negroes’ right in front of her.’

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In a far corner of the square the negroes sat quietly

177

[Mixed children] don’t belong anywhere

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around here once you have a drop of negro blood, that makes you all black,

180

Atticus aims to defend him.  That’s what I don’t like about it.

180

The negroes, having waited for the white people…, began to come in.

181

Four negroes rose and gave us their front-row seats

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boy

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You  felt sorry for her, you felt sorry  for her? … Below us, nobody liked Tom Robinson’s answer.

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Dolphus Raymond: Some folks don’t like the way I live … I don’t care if they don’t like it … I try to give ’em a reason

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Dolphus Raymond: things haven’t caught up with [Dill’s] instinct yet

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Atticus: [Mayella] has merely broken a rigid and time honoured code of our society … her desire was stronger than the code she was breaking …

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she did something that in our society is unspeakable

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the evil assumption – that all Negroes lie, that all  Negroes are basically immoral beings, and that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women

237

Miss Stephanie: Wasn’t [being in the balcony] right close up there with all those -?

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We’re so rarely called on to be Christians

238

Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win … we’re making a step – it’s just a baby-step, but it’s a step

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nigger-lovin’ bastard

257

Mrs Merriweather: some of ’em in this town thought they were doing the right thing a while back, but all they did was stir ’em up.

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To Maycomb, Tom’s death was typical.  Typical of a nigger to cut and run.  Typical of a nigger’s mentality to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first chance he saw.  …  You know how they are.  Easy come, easy go. … the veneer’s mighty thin.  Nigger always comes out in ’em.

266

Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

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We are a democracy … over here we don’t believe in persecuting any body.

272

it’s time somebody taught them a lesson, they were getting way above themselves, an’ the next thing they think they can do is marry us [Scout relaying Miss Gates].