Scout and Jem learns from Atticus that life is not always fair and that the world isn't ready to change how they treat blacks. Atticus tells them this life lesson after Toms trial and he is explaining to them that even though Tom had a good case to win he was almost certainely going to lose just because hes black. "Tom Robinsons a colored man, Jem. No jury in this part of the world's going to say, " we think your guilty, but not very," on a charge like that." This qoute describes how people think that if he is found guilty even if he doesn' t deseve to be executed he will be because he is black and no one wants to be the person who defends a black man.
Atticus also wants them to learn that life isn't fair for everybody. In these times a white man could take advantage of a black man and he wouldn't be able to do anything because it isn't his place to accuse someone that is suppose to be higher in status. But Atticus wants them to learn that things are probable not going to change for awhile because people are unwilling to change their beliefs that they have lived by for years.
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