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Great quote from To Kill a Mockingbird (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2020
OP
"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just" - Thomas Jefferson . . .
Journeyman
Jul 2020
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CaliforniaPeggy
(156,301 posts)1. Harper Lee knew what she was talking about. n/t
Journeyman
(15,433 posts)2. "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just" - Thomas Jefferson . . .
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!
TygrBright
(21,323 posts)3. Sort version: "We would be fools to ask justice rather than beg mercy." n/t
FakeNoose
(40,730 posts)4. This movie needs to be shown to every school kid - every year until they graduate High School
Even better - teach the book!
Cha
(317,720 posts)5. Awww.. and who do we think of when we read Harper Lee's
brilliant quote?
Anyway that's who I think of first
denem
(11,045 posts)6. I think of the son of a KKK slumlord,
who picked out another vile slumlord to marry his perfect plastic princess.
Cha
(317,720 posts)7. Yeah, the head Treasonous POS trump & BEANS.
denem
(11,045 posts)8. I don't know why, but the beans on the resolute desk
was a real kick in the guts. Absolutely shameful.
Cha
(317,720 posts)9. It pissed me Off, too.. did you see this OP?..

