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!!
—Mario Savio (the FBI harassed and wiretapped him for the rest of his life for this speech)
—Mario Savio (the FBI harassed and wiretapped him for the rest of his life for this speech)
It’s such a great speech. It’s also one of my favorite music samples of all time. Wretches and Kings goes hard