Magic Words 7/29/21

This was the pivotal speech of the Student Movements of the 60s. It gave us pause

Mario Savio, Free Speech Movement, Berkeley, 1964

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 tacitly take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levels, upon all the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who own it, to the people who run it, that unless you’re free, the machines will be prevented from running at all.