A/N: Although this quote isn't actual in the story, it is at the very beginning of the book. Out of everything in the book, this quote stuck with me the most.
"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once."
- Charles Lamb
Lawyers are known for fighting for their clients case, no matter what the circumstances call for. Lying, cheating, you name it. They are known for charging ridiculously large amounts of money for their clients; Twenty dollars per email, one hundred dollars just to show up at the courthouse. Lawyers have a reputation for being very manipulative, they are not known for being filled with innocence, much like a child is.
Using the term lawyer in a much broader sense, as in, the entire justice system (Including the jury of the court), this quote applies to the novel To Kill A Mockingbird very nicely. It is quite obvious that Tom Robinson is innocent. The jury and the judge refuse to believe this, though, because Tom Robinson is of color, automatically making him wrong. The children of this story see that this is not right and that he shouldn't be automatically claimed guilty because he isn't white. If everybody had the reasoning of the children, the case would have went down much differently, most likely with Tom Robinson being claimed as innocent.
That's true
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