"But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal — there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honourable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levellers, and in our courts all men are created equal."
React to this quote
More by Harper Lee
See allResonant Thoughts
"We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that it divided; but the …"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"He advanced toward me without moving his hat, or making the least inclination of his body; but there appear…"
— Voltaire"People ask me how much I weigh. I tell them, 145 pounds, naked. That is, if that scale outside the drugstor…"
— Emo Philips"Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them."
— Elbert Hubbard"The last thing we want is a war in this country, but it is the inevitable outcome for the way the country i…"
— Tommy Robinson"It is all-important to keep the human touch in whatever we do... This is the machine age... and we should m…"
— Frances Perkins"May the Great God, whom I worship, grant to my Country and for the benefit of Europe in general a great and…"
— Horatio Nelson
Related Thinkers
Related Topics
Deep Dives
- Stephen King on Human Nature
- Robert A. Heinlein on Human Nature
- Ernest Hemingway on Human Nature
- Mark Twain on Human Nature
- George Bernard Shaw on Human Nature
- Virginia Woolf on Human Nature
- Anton Chekhov on Human Nature
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Human Nature
- Stephen King on life
- Stephen King on time
- knowledge & Beauty
- knowledge & Change