Go set a watchman

‘Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.’

• “It’s easy to tell somebody what to do, but very hard to make them do it. That’s the cause of most trouble in this world, people not doing as they’re told.”
• “Gentlemen, if there’s one slogan in this world I believe, it is this: equal rights for all, special privileges for none.”
• I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody, not just Negroes.
• “It’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are.”
• Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
• “The time your friends need you is when they’re wrong. They don’t need you when they’re right.”

Remark 1:

In this book, there is an acronym: NAACP. What does NAACP stand for?

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.

Remark 2:

If you have problems, don’t run away, face them! Especially if the problem is your family, is people you love.

Remark 3:

Find previous book “To kill a mocking bird” here.