"She just fell down in the dirt. Just fell down inthe dirt, like a giant with a big foot just camealong and stepped on her." Dill on whenHelen found out Tom had died.

"She just fell down in the dirt. Just fell down inthe dirt, like a giant with a big foot just camealong and stepped on her." Dill on whenHelen found out Tom had died.

because he was telling the truth toward thecourt

"That boy'ss worked for me eight years an's I ain'sthad a speck o's trouble outa him. Not a speck."Mr Gilmer

Because he knew he shouldn'st have gone into awhite woman'ss house

He felt sorry for Mayella

"Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemedto try more'sn the rest of 'sem" Tom Robinsonduring the trial

"He would not have dared strike a whitewomen under any circumstances..." Scoutsthoughts

"Atticus had used every tool available to freemen to save Tom Robinson, but in the secretcourts of men'ss hearts Atticus had no case. Tomwas a dead man the minute Mayella Ewellopened her mouth and screamed." Racism inMaycomb

"Atticus had used every tool available to freemen to save Tom Robinson, but in the secretcourts of men'ss hearts Atticus had no case. Tomwas a dead man the minute Mayella Ewellopened her mouth and screamed." Racism inMaycomb

"There'ss something in our world that makesmen lose their heads they couldn'st be fair ifthey tried. In our courts, when it'ss a whiteman'ss word against a black man'ss, the whiteman always wins. They'sre ugly, but those arethe facts of life."

gets killed by gun squad