confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption—the evil assumption—
that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings,
that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber.
Which, gentlemen, we know is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson’s skin, a lie I do not have to point out to you.
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 or white.
But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing,
and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.”
Atticus paused and took out his handkerchief. Then he took off his glasses and wiped them, and we saw another “first”:
we had never seen him sweat—he was one of those men whose faces never perspired, but now it was shining tan.
One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal,
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