“In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.”
– Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 23. Atticus to Jem, saying that the courts are always biased against black people. No matter how much the evidence shows they are innocent, when they are accused of a crime by a white person they will always be found guilty, he suggests.