11 seconds sound clip from the Meet John Doe (1941) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:50:50 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- You're gonna need him and he's gonna need you, so look him up. If he's sick, call on him. If he's hungry, feed him. If he's out of a job, find him one.
- To most of you, your neighbor is a stranger. A guy with a barking dog and a high fence around him.
- You can't be a stranger to any guy that's on your own team.
- So tear down the fence that separates you. Tear it down and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices.
- Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork.
(applause in the hall) (5)
- I know a lot of you are saying to yourselves: He's asking for a miracle to happen. He's expecting people to change all of a sudden.
- Well, you're wrong. It's no miracle. It's no miracle... because I see it happen once a year and so do you, at Christmas time.
- There's something swell about the spirit of Christmas. To see what it does to people, all kinds of people.
- Now why can't that spirit, that same warm Christmas spirit, last the whole year round?
- Gosh! If it ever did, if each and every John Doe made that spirit last 365 days out of a year...
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