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I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

Harper Lee
Broken, Gentleman, Guilt
Horton Foote, Harper Lee (1964). “The screenplay of To kill a mockingbird”
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.