The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

Eddie Redmayne: Tom Hayden

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• Tom Hayden : What is that?

  Rennie Davis : I've been keeping a list every day. Americans who've been killed since the day we were arrested.

  Tom Hayden : Why?

  Rennie Davis : With the trial starting, it might get easy to forget who this is about.

• Tom Hayden : Are we using the trial to defend ourselves against very serious charges that could land us in prison for ten years, or to say a pointless "fuck you" to the establishment?

  Jerry Rubin : Fuck you!

  Tom Hayden : That is what I was afraid... Wait, I don't know if you were saying "fuck you" or answering.

  Abbie Hoffman : ...I was also confused.

• Abbie Hoffman : Winning elections, that's the first thing on your wish list? Equality, justice, education, poverty and progress, they're second?

  Tom Hayden : If you don't win elections, it doesn't matter what's second. And it is astonishing to me that someone still has to explain that to you.

• Tom Hayden : If blood is going to flow, let it flow all over this city!

• Ramsey Clark : I'm in private practice now, and if John Mitchell wants to cut me in half, he can and he will.

  Tom Hayden : You have to find some... Sir, you have to find some courage now.

  Ramsey Clark : Find some courage? Yeah.

  Tom Hayden : Yes. You have to find some courage, and...

  Leonard Weinglass : [silencing him]  Tom.

  Ramsey Clark : [points at Kelly and Ackerman]  That's what those two men came to tell me, that if John Mitchell wants to cut me in half, he can and he will. So I wanted them in the room when I said 'When do you want me in court?'

  Howard Ackerman : [standing in surprise]  Mr. Clark?

  William Kunstler : I'm sorry?

  Ramsey Clark : Swear me in, Bill.

  Howard Ackerman : It is against the law for you to testify, Ramsey. It is as simple as that.

  Ramsey Clark : It's General Clark. And arrest me or shut the fuck up.

  Ramsey Clark : [turns to Hayden]  Found some.

• Detective Deluca : [to Tom]  Don't fuckin' move.

  Detective Bell : [also to Tom]  On your feet.

  Tom Hayden : Those are two contradictory instructions.

• [after being informed of Fred Hampton's murder] 

  Bobby Seale : [to Tom Hayden]  You've all got the same father, right? 'Cut your hair, don't be a fag, respect authority, respect America - respect me.' Your life, it's a 'fuck-you' to your father, right? A little?

  Tom Hayden : Maybe.

  Bobby Seale : Maybe. And you can see how that's different from a rope on a tree?

  Tom Hayden : [quietly]  Yeah.

  Bobby Seale : Yeah. He was shot in the shoulder first. You can't aim a gun if you've been shot in the shoulder, you can't squeeze the trigger. Second shot was in his head. Fred was executed. Anything else?

  William Kunstler : No.

  [Bobby leaves the room without another word] 

• Tom Hayden : Is that Jerry?

  Rennie Davis : [on the phone]  Yeah.

  Tom Hayden : Tell him to tell Abbie we're going to Chicago to end the war and not to fuck around.

  Rennie Davis : [into the phone]  Tom says to tell Abbie that we're going to Chicago to end the war and not to fuck around.

  Jerry Rubin : Hayden says we're going to Chicago to end the war and not to fuck around.

  Abbie Hoffman : Tell Hayden that I went to Brandeis and I can do both.

• Fred Hampton : Bobby's life is at stake, and you guys are playing to the crowd?

  Tom Hayden : Thank you...

  Fred Hampton : Shut up!

• Leonard Weinglass : Abbie's smarter than you think he is.

  Tom Hayden : Cows are smarter than I think he is.