Prejudice

"Mr. Radley's boy was not seen again for fifteen years"(10)
any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work"(9)

“’ Boo was about six and a half feet tall, ... there was a long jagged scar that ran across his face;
what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the
time"(13).
'Grandma says it's bad enough he lets you all run wild, but now he is turning out to be a nigger-
lover... he's ruinin' the family, that's what he's doin'"(83).
"What exactly is a nigger-lover?"

"Your father is no better than the niggers and trash he works for"
'What did the nigger look like when you got through with him?'... Atticus raised his head 'it was
a misdemeanor and it's in the record'

'Why did you run so fast?'... 'It weren't safe for any nigger to be in a-fix like that.'... 'you weren't in a
fix... were you scared she was going to hurt you?'... "No suh, I's scared I'd be in court...scared I'd hafta
face up to what I didn't do"(198) In the thirties a white person's word is superior to that of a black
person's.

'you say she's lying, boy?'(197).

Mr. Gilmer is also disrespectful to the Black race referring to them as "niggers"
“Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts
of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her
mouth and screamed.”
Judge "--I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin' on my Mayella.”.

“ Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.”
"They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it –
seems that only children weep”
He dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch." and that he bit off his mother's finger one
night when he couldn't find any cats or squirrels to eat "

"You'll have a very unladylike scar on your wedding-ring finger."

"you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ".

‘’ Thomas Robinson reached around, ran his fingers under his left arm and lifted it. He guided his arm
to the Bible and his rubber-like left hand sought contact with the black binding. As he raised his right
hand, the useless one slipped off the Bible and hit the clerk’s table.’’ .

"when they saw him, why he didn’t do any of those things – Atticus, he was really nice ".