I need help with this, as I cannot find any evidence that can help answer the question in the book.
Most of the book follows the theme of Atticus's respect black people. He takes the Tom Robinson case in a town that has already condemned him.
If you shouldn't be defendin' him, then why are you doin' it?"
"For a number of reasons," said Atticus. "The main one is, if I didn't I couldn't hold up my head in town, I couldn't represent this county in the legislature, I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again."
Atticus also respects Calpurnia enough as a mother-figure to his own children.
