I won’t live to see the law changed, and if you live to see it you’ll be an old man.”
This was not good enough for Jem. “No sir, they oughta do away with juries. He wasn’t guilty in the first place and they said he was.”
If you had been on that jury, son, and eleven other boys like you, Tom would be a free man,said Atticus.
So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.
Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tom’s jury, but you saw something come between them and reason.
You saw the same thing that night in front of the jail.
When that crew went away, they didn’t go as reasonable men, they went because we were there.
There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.”
“Doesn’t make it right,” said Jem stolidly. He beat his fist softly on his knee.
You just can’t convict a man on evidence like that—you can’t.
You couldn’t, but they could and did. The older you grow the more of it you’ll see.
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