They and you and I, we good people, we, the solid citizens of this community, we photographed and labeled this boy years ago. We made this rendezvous with him years ago. We brutalized and ordered him here years ago.

16 seconds sound clip from the Knock on Any Door movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:36:15.519 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- We're scandalized by environment, and we call it crime. We denounce crime, and yet we disclaim any responsibility for it. And we lack the will to do anything about it.

- Until we do away with the type of neighborhood that produced this boy, 10 will spring up to take his place... 100, 1000, until we wipe out the slums and rebuild them!

- Knock on any door... And you may find Nick Romano.

- The newspapers have been clamoring for pictures and stories about this trial.

- Well, why don't you print this?

- They and you and I, we good people, we, the solid citizens of this community, we photographed and labeled this boy years ago. We made this rendezvous with him years ago. We brutalized and ordered him here years ago.

- If he dies in the electric chair, we killed him. Print that!

- Where do we take him now? Do we kill him? The current coursing through the blood, the nerves, the heart, the brain.

- I ask mercy from this court. I ask this so that for us who walk free, for all of us, there may be some mercy.

- I am moved by your eloquence, Mr. Morton... deeply moved. However, the law and the duty of this court is clear.

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