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Thread #85007   Message #1574317
Posted By: akenaton
02-Oct-05 - 06:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: People shouting 'Rubbish!'.
Subject: RE: BS: People shouting 'Rubbish!'.
On the Dylan thread there was a newsreel clip of the famous oration by Mario Savio in front of The University of California in Berkeley.

Savio was the leader of the Free Speech Movement which helped to radicalise the students, strengthen the Civil Rights Movement and hasten the end of Vietnam war. Mario Savios' words are still relevant. Here is part of his speech.

"There is 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!"