Most scenes together: Abbie Hoffman & William Kunstler (3), Abbie Hoffman & Tom Hayden (3), Abbie Hoffman & Richard Schultz (3)
Do you know why you're on trial here?
We carried certain ideas across state lines. Not machine guns or drugs or little girls. Ideas. When we crossed from New York to New Jersey to Pennsylvania to Ohio to Illinois, we had certain ideas. And for that, we were gassed, beaten, arrested, and put on trial.
Maybe you don't want to call it the Conspiracy Office.
They understand the irony, and appreciate the humor.
I wouldn't count on it.
Most people are smart, Bill.
Well, if you believe that, you'll get your heart broken every day of your life.
Of course, because you took that black guy and you made him a sympathetic character.
Mr. Kunstler, I have lived a a very long time, sir, and you're the first person ever to suggest that I have discriminated against a black man!
Then let the record show that I am the second.
He does this, it's a pattern. Read his portion of the Port Huron Statement. He implies possessive pronouns and uses vague noun modifiers.
If blood is going to flow, let it flow all over this city!
That's right, we're not goin' to jail because of what we did, we're goin' to jail because of who we are!
This is the Academy Awards of protests and as far as I'm concerned it's an honor just to be nominated.
We've dealt with jury tampering, wiretapping, a defendant that was literally gagged, and a judge who's been handing down rulings from the bench that would be considered wrong in Honduras, so I'm a little less interested in the law than I was when this trial began.
