“This is a quiet, frightened, insignificant old man who has been nothing all his life, who has never had recognition, his name in the newspapers. Nobody knows him, nobody quotes him, nobody seeks his advice after seventy-five years. That's a… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery.… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“Well, it's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others. He gambled for support and I gave it to him.” — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“This is a quiet, frightened, insignificant old man who has been nothing all his life, who has never had recognition, his name in the… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly. — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them. — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
“Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities. We may be wrong. We may… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
