Atticus and Mrs Dubose both show moral courage, but in very different circumstances. Atticus defines moral courage to Jem and Scout: "It's when you know you"re licked when you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." Atticus has said something similar previously when he referred to Tom Robinson's court case "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try and win." Atticus knows that moral courage is very difficult for the children to understand, but it is extremely important to him that the children use moral courage because...

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