| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 35263 |
| QUOTATION: | As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Harper Lee (b. 1926), U.S. author. Atticus Finch, in To Kill a Mockingbird, pt. 2, ch. 23 (1960).
Addressing his son Jem. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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