It's a Sin to Kill a Mockingbird.
“Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it.“Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
These lines from Chapter 10 are the source of the novel’s title and introduce one of the key metaphors of the book: the idea of “mockingbirds” as good, innocent people who are destroyed by evil. Boo Radley, for instance, is like a mockingbird—just as mockingbirds do not harm people but only “sing their hearts out for us,” Boo does not harm anyone; instead, he leaves Jem and Scout presents, covers Scout with a blanket during the fire, and eventually saves the children from Bob Ewell. Despite the pureness of his heart, however, Boo has been damaged by an abusive father. The connection between songbirds and innocents is made explicitly several times in the book: in Chapter 25, Mr. Underwood likens Tom Robinson’s death to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children”; in Chapter 30, Scout tells Atticus that hurting Boo Radley would be “sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird.” The moral imperative to protect the vulnerable governs Atticus’s decision to take Tom’s case, just as it leads Jem to protect the roly-poly bug from Scout’s hand.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/quotes.html
I grew up with this book.The immortal words of wisdom by Harper Lee. I know most of it by heart.
Trayvon was a Mockingbird, he was an innocent child that was murdered by prejudice and hate.
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watched the movie too. It affected me as well, Avalux. It always will.
You are very lucky, indepat. 
not an offering price or sale. 
You have posted some great OP's too. Thanks.
Heartbreaking, I only heard the recording for the first time yesterday.
I will, when I think that I am ready~ 
The clip of his mom, Sybrina, during the trial identifying her baby boy's voice on the tape of the 911 call that recorded his last futile cries for help, ended with a gunshot.
I couldn't. It hurt to much.
It's hard to explain, however I grew up in a very open minded family. Sure we had our problems but bigotry was not one of them. It makes it so difficult to understand the hate. It pains me.
Thank you SKP...I will go to your journal when I can.
That is one of my favorite quotes from the book...
Thanks longship.
I read and saw "To Kill A Mockingbird" a long time ago but haven't seen or read it since. Even though I know people over the years who have talked about it with reverence.
Now, you've got me definitely going to do that. It really is never too late.
this is why I love DU.. for posts like these~
watched it many times, Cha.
You will love watching it again. It will take on new meaning, considering our current events.
Quoting this book is very appropriate and shows that even in the face of injustice, people must stand up. I bought that book for countless of my students because novels are no longer required reading and I believe it is still very important today.
"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. 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."
For Trayvon