Citations:Atticus Finch

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English citations of Atticus Finch

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  • 1996 John Denvir, Legal reelism: movies as legal texts, University of Illinois Press, p64
    If there is any bridge leading back from this period to the law-related Westerns of the Depression, it is that unpretentious little picture Legion of the Lawless, where George O'Brien portrays virtually an Atticus Finch on horseback and where the lawyer's function is to overthrow injustice and exploitation by subjecting them to a regime of rules.
  • 1996 Pete Earley, Circumstantial evidence: death, life, and justice in a southern town, Bantam Books, p395
    What you should care about is creating a society and a legal system where people are not forced to have an Atticus Finch represent them [...]
  • 2004 Jean-François Leroux & Camille R. La Bossière, Worlds of wonder: readings in Canadian science fiction and fantasy literature, p123
    Rice chastises Nobiho for his reluctance to hire a jury consultant to help with the jury selection process by telling him, "You're an idealist, an Atticus Finch [...]"
  • 2004 Des Kennedy, Flame of separation, Insomniac Press, p118
    We'd just drifted away from each other. I'd long ago ceased to be his shining prodigy just as he'd ceased to be my Atticus Finch.
  • 2008 Larry Sabato, The sixth year itch: the rise and fall of the George W. Bush presidency, Pearson/Longman, p95
    Beebe has an Atticus Finch persona, which should make him a very popular figure in Little Rock.