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  • I found this only because of the line "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." being in a few songs by the pAper chAse. Love this speech.

  • @7887477 I completely agree

  • LP good choice for your song

  • Out right with it: I dont get it. At all. The more I think, the less sense it makes.

    Someone HELP ME please.

  • @House3272 Think of it as the thing that commands you what to and not to do. Now there are people just use this as an excuse to fight the law. But every now and then when authority abuses the power we give them, it is justifiable to fight 'The Man'. I think his speech could be a metaphor for governing bodies as a whole; the machine (local authority) is constantly taking orders by the people who run it (government), and when they use it to attack something unethical, "you've got to make it stop".

  • All you people who think of Savio's speech as nothing more than some flippant attachment to Linkin Park's, Wrectches & Kings, are a disgrace. This is a speech about the fallbility of the system. The very speech that acted as a catalyst for the Free Speech movement and Civil Right movement. Savio's admirable speech acted as a deflection towards racial segregation.

  • @Lifeisironicreject it was more than that. It was the start of the Free Speech Movement against UC Berkeley Administration. there is a longer version of this speech, and THAT one is even harder to hear, because it explains WHY he is refering to a machine. UC Berkeley admin basically called the students their employees or something of the sort

  • @rfleader06 Thanks for the info =)

  • @Lifeisironicreject So then you can say "thumbs up if research or some shit like that brought you here"

    you think you're any different?

    People who heard it from the Linkin park song looked up the speech because it touched them just as it has touched you. I personally love this speech and i didnt know about it until I heard Wretches & Kings... and i'm sure Linkin Park's band members love it too or else they wouldnt have put it in the fucking song.

  • @kansutachi Actually, that's a fair point you made. It just personally annoys me if people think of Mario Savio as "the guy who was on Linkin Park's Wretches and Kings" (But it's as you said. I'm sure Linking Park noted the Historical significance that Mario Savio had to have artfully included him in a song about "rebellion against the machine". It was indeed, quite clever because challenging authority/social norms is an idea suitable for every historical period ^_^)

  • @Lifeisironicreject Oh definitely i totally agree. I wouldnt be surprised if you had to read some severely annoying comments from narrow-minded linkin park fans. Your comment seemed harsh but i guess thats why its the top comment, you wanted to make a point just as i wanted to. Thanks for the feedback ^_^

  • @Kansutachi No problem =)

  • @Kansutachi @Lifeisironicreject The internet needs more people like you guys.

  • @lxs48 lol thanks!

  • Forget Linkin Park and Fear Factory. Thumbs up if you're hear because you give a shit about what he's saying...

  • @hogwashsentinel Damn right, i mean i think it's cool that those bands are now "in the know". he was followed by the FBI until the day he died. He was born 40 years before i was on the same day. December 8, 1942 – November 6, 1996

  • @hogwashsentinel This guy^

  • LOL, Fear Factory used this speech in Timelessness back then in 1998, Linkin Park just stole their idea.

  • @wwweirdo I totally agree on Fear Factory, using this sample in 1998 on "Obsolete" album.

  • Forget Linkin Park... Thumbs up if you got here because of Me Mom and Morgantaller!

  • I got here because of Linkin Park...and I was watching Battlestar Galactica and one of the dudes was spouting this and I was like wait...Linkin Park! And then wait...some other dude made that speech up! Now I ended up here. :)

  • Thumbs Up if Fear Factory brought you here.

  • You can see more of this speech, and the movement that Mario Savio was a part of, in the 1990 film, "Berkeley in the Sixties." Great film.

    Interestingly, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement laid the groundwork for much of the counterculture that emerged in the second half of that decade. Yes, several bands have sampled Savio here. Those bands, and the ethos that fostered them, are descended from this counterculture. We have come full circle.

  • Actually it was in a song of fear factory long before BSG or LP. Downvote for the infowars link.

  • The "World" never will change it!! Way to many cows, and sheeple out there!!!!

  • I don't think anyone who comes here truly understands the meaning of this speech or the civil rights campaign at the time.

    Don't get me wrong that it's great to learn of this speech, but from most of you, I hear something like, "Fck ya stick it to the man!"

    Is it mainly out of being a rebel, or is it because you are truly sick and tired of the US being a belligerent nation along with all the bureaucratic and capitalist disconnect BS?

    Answer that to yourself. This world still hasn't changed since

  • @Lievearn FUCK YOU YOU DON'T KNOW IT'S MEANING

  • @Lievearn

    Indeed, even former communist nations have slowly began to adapt the capitalistic mindset which only further catalyzes the destruction of what's left of the Earth. Soon, there will be a massive arms race to compete for whatever resources are left and even more people will die, more of the Earth will be destroyed - all for the sake of the fucking pigs who have dubbed themselves the ruling class which - whether most of us know or not - are tethered to and dependent upon to survive.

  • Odious - Angerfist & Outblast

    'nuff said

  • battlestar galactica paid tribute first to this speech than LP....

  • A short speech, yet....hits you square in the chest.

    Awesome!

  • Oh wow, he sounds like Gene Wilder. I was convinced it was him until I saw this video and was surprised. This reminded me of Gene Wilder in the chocolate factory so I thought it has to be him. lol i was wrong.

  • I got here because of Fear Factory.

    sup

  • I got here because I hate the way society becomes mechanized for efficiency at the cost of its humanity.

  • I got here because I was watching battlestar galactica and heard the speech and remembered that its on wretches and kings, then I wiki'ed the song and it brought me here :) Love Linkin Park, your lyrics have always been amazing and inspiring.

  • Linkin Park brought me here; I wondered about some of the parts for Wretches and Kings. Their usage of rally speeches in the album is really fitting with the anti-war theme they were trying to convey.

  • Got here for Good Riddance's "Operation Phoenix". Then later for "Half Nelson" (the movie) as well.

  • You know, when I listen to this on the Linkin Park Album, I swear I it was Gene Wilder from some sort of film/movie...weird.

  • @Cuishi10 I searched it to see what movie Gene Wilder had said it in too. I would have bet money that it was him.

  • @clairedog312 Oh my goodnes!! Isn't that something! this dude does sound like Gene Wilder though...it's crazy...

  • Frak Linkin Park, who got here from Battlestar Galactica?

  • @0Mirror1Mirror0 Uhh..nobody..

  • I'm came to this because it was on a movie, Half Nelson. Decent flick, Ryan Gosling is in it. Linkin Park isn't good enough to use this speech. Fear Factory is though. Sampling is sort of cheesy to me in general but I'm not here to discuss my taste in music. This speech, or exerpt of, is intense and wrought with conviction. We need more people like this today speaking out. Open your eyes to truth. One man has been speaking it for 30 yrs Throw out the tyrants in 2012 vote Ron Paul

  • inspiring

  • Excellent Linkin Park! for bringing this to our ears.

  • agreed. tenn. is making laws as we speak to include jail time and fines to posting images that are "mentaly disturbing" thats how i got here. this man here fought for free speech and now he continues to do the same! some americans fight for freedom, some, like politicians fight to take them away

  • Fear Factory!

  • The fuck happened to kids these days?

    You're still being run over like a moron these days, as your freedoms are now an open illusion. Your government is consent of the people, not ruling them. You owe it to yourself to learn, to improve humanity, and to set this world anew.

  • damn 1964 + 2011=same old crap from these( evil -demonic -satanic-bastards world leaders )damn 47yrs later and nothing as change nor will ever change .

  • I am free today, thanks to the free-thinkers like Mario Savio. Kudos to you <3

  • thumbs up everybody if u got here because of lp!!

  • Thumbs Up if you got here because of BattleStar Gallatica.

  • i heard this through a song of linkin park i love them so much then i heard the speech and i wuz like omg this is fantastic!!!

  • This speech gives me goose bumps. The anger in his voice and the passion for justice poors out. I love it! Stand tall and fear none.

  • Got here because of Linkin Park and Battlestar Galactica

  • This is my favourite speech! Thanks Linkin Park.

  • Timelessness.

  • Steel unload fire blow we the animals take control wretches and kings you we,ve come for you

  • LP!!!!

  • I was reading my AP US History textbook when I stumbled across a section talking about how Mario Savio called for students to "throw our body against the machines" and I was like HOLD UP, LINKIN PARK!

  • This was on the album "Operation Phoenix" (Fat Wreck Chords, 1999) by punk/melodic hardcore band Good Riddance, first. But hey, the message and the semitiment is moving. By the way, Good Riddance - heard of 'em? No? That's because THEY were UNDERGROUND. But it's a moving speech and I'm sure it's been used by other bands as well. I suggest checking them out. Their sound varies throughout the hardcore/melodic hardcore/punk sounds, so check out their other works too.

  • fear factory did it in 1998 in their album Obsolete

  • @9syc0 Finally, someone metioned it.

    Kudos and respect !

  • thumbs up if you got here because of Anon

  • Thumbs up!

  • I don't quite understand what this speech is about? xD

  • Totally using this for my history project

    oh Linkin Park you educate me <3

  • WRETCHES AND KINGS WOOT

  • LP Rocks

  • i got here because of linkin park., I wanted to research the origin of the interlude to their song wretches and kings., it think its really awesome that the used a part of a historic free speech rally, it goes to show all these fake ass pop stars and so called "artists" that true artistry comes from knowing the world around you and what has happened in that world., being creative and using these things to make a statement!

  • @jo3danc3 that is exactly the same reason i came here and found out about Mario Savio and Oppenheimmer and i definately belive the same about pop artists like you do. Pop artist - sings about banging prostittues and telephones and much more crap. Underground artists - meaningfull good wholesome inspired music

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  • @mcdonaldsmashers Please understand, there are plenty of underground bands that sing about "banging 'prostittues' and telephones and much more crap," and plenty of pop - or mainstream - artists (like LP) that sing "meaningful good wholesome inspired music." The difference is WHY they do it. Pop bands do it to make money. Underground bands do it to make a difference.

  • @HandiCripple666 thank you for opening my eyes to your point of view and to be honest I made a mistake with what I said, and in fact do agree with you

  • @mcdonaldsmashers At 32 I'm not old school, not new school, more like middle school punk. I have 3 places/categories for music. Underground/non-mainstream/god­s of music: Good Riddance, Ledbelly, Tchaikovsky etc., top shelf. Great mainstream artists: Linkin Park, Nirvana, Green Day etc.– middle shelf. Modern R & B, hip-hop and emo, pop punk, pop rock, most pop music– bottom shelf...where I keep my trash can. It's more a matter of respect for the artists than the sound; an important distinction.

  • @jo3danc3 1000% agree. It is really annoying when ppl call jerks like backstreet boys "artists"

  • @jo3danc3 you know those "fake ass pop stars" include linkin park as well. i don't see them doing anything about poverty or euthanasia

  • Wow. Powerful. I just heard "Suns" and I fucking hated it. It's sad, I actually liked "Minutes" but thus new album was baaaad. Anyway I thought this speech was BAMF so I looked it up.

  • @Ohfukmoment minutes is shit compared to A Thousand Suns... the last few tracks on minutes were shitty filler, but ATS has 1000x more action, creativity and meaning

  • @AshArcherMusic Gotta disagree with you there, ATS is 50% Filler bullshit, theres like 6 1:30 songs that are all music/instruments. Just my opinion though

  • fuck linkin park i got here from the actual band "bodies in the gears of the apparatus"

  • Thumbs up if you got here because of LINKIN PARK!

  • @kresimirlukic000 LINKIN PARK! sell music and create fans, this guy stands up and makes a difference , know the difference kiddies dont here it in a song and think its cool, get off your ipod asses

  • @kresimirlukic000 ...........Linkin Park?......

  • @kresimirlukic000 thumbs up

  • no shit bitch

  • @kresimirlukic000 lol yes

  • screw linkin park, i'm here for the cog song - 'the movies over'. love it

  • wretches and kings

  • Hey i'm here because this speech is part of the Linkin Park song: Wretches & Kings.

    Go! Linkin Park!

  • @supergetsugatensho linkin park got this speech for their new songs

  • "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." Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964

  • @supergetsugatensho

    THIS IS WIKIPEDIA!!!

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