"...all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along the industrious-because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense that some people would have us believe-some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity than others because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others-some people born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.
But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal-there is one human institution that make a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, he stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal."
I've just finished reading this wonderful piece of literature by award winning Harper Lee, and the above is my favorite quotation from the book, where it says about equality, and yes it is true. Yes, I know I might be one of the late readers of this book but now I know why this is one of the book that one's must read before one's die. It's a simple love and human story. It'll tell you about human behaviour, and how pure it is from the view of pure hearted people.
But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal-there is one human institution that make a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, he stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal."
Excerpt from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
I've just finished reading this wonderful piece of literature by award winning Harper Lee, and the above is my favorite quotation from the book, where it says about equality, and yes it is true. Yes, I know I might be one of the late readers of this book but now I know why this is one of the book that one's must read before one's die. It's a simple love and human story. It'll tell you about human behaviour, and how pure it is from the view of pure hearted people.
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