"He might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better when you're older. A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr Cunnignham was part of a mob last night, but he ws still a man.Every mob in every little Souhern town is always made up of people you know - doesn't say much for them, does it?''I'll say ot, ' said Jem.'So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses, didn't it?' said Atticus. 'That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children."

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Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for To Kill a Mockingbird, a landmark novel about racial injustice in the U.S. South. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and became a modern classic. She later published Go Set a Watchman, an earlier draft-related work.

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