You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down.

“Atticus, you must be wrong...”
“How's that?”
“Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong...”
“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions,” said Atticus, “but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

“I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,” said Dill.
Jem and I stopped in our tracks.
“Yes sir, a clown,” he said. “There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.”
“You got it backwards, Dill,” said Jem. “Clowns are said, it's folks that laugh at them.”
“Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.”