"A Time to Kill" Quotes
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter in a racially charged trial in Mississippi.
fiction | 515 pages | Published in 1989
Quotes
There is a time to break silence, and a time to speak.
I want justice, Jake. I want what's right.
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
The jury had to decide who was the lesser of two evils.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
The truth was that for a reason that terrified him, he no longer cared.
It's not revenge I'm after, it's the truth. It's justice.
In life, the rules will be changed, and the game will be rigged.
Freedom is the only thing worth living for. While I was in jail, I thought about this a lot.
The law is a lot like politics; it's a dirty business.
