"It's going to be a
combination Scopes
trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival
and People's Park,
all rolled into one." -- Abbie
Hoffman
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"It's going to be the
most important
political trial in the history of the United
States." -- Jay
Miller, director of the Illinois Division of the
American Civil Liberties
Union
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"This is a criminal
trial, not a political
trial. I intend to play it as straight as
possible. They can
monopolize the rhetoric. I'm interested in the
jury." -- Thomas Aquinas
Foran, the United States Attorney
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"Gentlemen, let's get
something straight.
The police aren't in the streets to create
disorder; they are in
the streets to preserve disorder." --
Mayor Richard Daley
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ABBIE
HOFFMAN: Are you
asking if I had those thoughts or if I wrote that I
had those thoughts?
There's a difference.
RICHARD G. SCHULTZ, THE
ASSISTANT U.S.
ATTORNEY: It's a convenient difference, isn't
it Mr. Hoffman?
ABBIE
HOFFMAN: I don't
know what you mean. I've never been on trial
for my thoughts before.
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"Those who incite to
violence should
be punished whether or not freedom of speech is
impaired."
-- Congressman
Robert L.F. Sikes
(Democrat, Florida), during debate on the "antiriot'
provisions of the
1968 Civil Rights Act.
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"The Conspiracy in the
streets needs: freedom,
actors, peace, turf, money, sunshine, musicians,
instruments, people, props,
cars, air, water, costumes, sound equipment, love,
guns, freaks, friends,
anarchy, Huey free, a truck, airplanes, power, glory,
old clothes, space,
truth, Nero, paint, paint, help, rope, swimming hole,
ice cream, dope,
nookie, moonship, Om, lords, health, no hassles, land,
pigs, time, patriots,
spacesuits, a Buick, people's justice, Eldridge,
lumber, panthers, real
things, good times." -- Leaflet handed out by
the Conspiracy office
in the week before the trial.
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"Conspiracy? Hell, we
couldn't agree
on lunch." -- Abbie Hoffman
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"They understood that you
didn't have to
attack the fortress anymore. You could just
surround it, make faces
at the people inside and let them have nervous
breakdowns and destroy themselves."
-- Norman Mailer
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"Would you like your
children to grow up
like them?" -- A Chicago Seven Trial juror
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"Our strategy was to give
Judge Hoffman
a heart attack. We gave the court system a heart
attack, which is
even better." -- Jerry Rubin
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