Justice

Question 1

Ain’t Right

Answer 1

‘It ain’t right, somehow it ain’t right to do ‘em that way.’

Question 2

Reasoning Process

Answer 2

‘So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.’

Question 3

Doubt

Answer 3

‘The law says “reasonable doubt”, but I think a defendant’s entitled to the shadow of a doubt. There’s always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he’s innocent.’

Question 4

Lose their Heads

Answer 4

‘There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads - they couldn’t be fair if they tried.’

Question 5

Resentment

Answer 5

‘The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.’

Question 6

Secret Courts

Answer 6

‘Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case.’

Question 7

Bury the Dead

Answer 7

‘There’s a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it’s dead. Let the dead bury the dead’

Question 8

Mockingbird

Answer 8

‘they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’

Question 9

Advantage

Answer 9

‘Tom Robinson was probably the only person who was ever decent to her. But she said he took advantage of her, and when she stood up she looked at him as if he were dirt beneath her feet.’

Question 10

Evidence of Offence

Answer 10

‘She did something every child has done - she tried to put the evidence of her offence away from her…What was the evidence of her offence? Tom Robinson, a human being.’

Question 11

Children Weep

Answer 11

‘They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it - seems that only children weep.’