Mario Savio: Bodies Upon The Gears (2 December 1964)

[struggle4progress]

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

[ShazamIam]

1. When my son was in high the teacher of his English class as part of the secton on Speech played this speech and

these speeches as her favorites:
John F. Kennedy inauguration speech
Martin Luther King Jr.'s' I Have a Dream Speech
Representative Barbara Jordan's Watergate Speech
And this Mario Savio Speech.
He was interested so we looked them up online so he could hear them again. I like them all as well.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I am currently rewatching the Ken Burns film series "Vietnam"

and he was mentioned. I always get really angry when I watch this series but it is "good" anger since it has a direction, an agenda. It is an anger for this BS occurring again and again and again by our untrustworthy governments and religions. Nothing changes, everything stays the same.

I just Googled him and learned that he was harassed by the FBI, etc for most of the remainder of his short life. He died of a heart attack at the age of 53.