“He’s the same in the courtroom as he is on the public streets.”
– Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 19. Scout says this to Dill Harris about Atticus, remembering the “sharp phrase” that Miss Maudie once used about her father. Scout is talking of the respectful way that Atticus treated people in the witness box during the Tom Robinson trial, unlike the disrespectful way that Dill complains the prosecution lawyer Mr. Gilmer treated black man Tom Robinson.