Mario Savio on Civil Disobedience

"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! ... That doesn't mean that you have to break anything. One thousand people sitting down some place, not letting anybody by, not [letting] anything happen, can stop any machine, including this machine! And it will stop!"

2 December 1964, UC Berkeley, Sproul Hall Sit-In

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[MichaelHansenFUN]

i was at the mario savio hall "plaque" and took pictures.

I also have the radio program (complete with police riots) about the incident.

afraid to post it up here because I dont know who owns the rights to it. 

[yrrmom]

@MichaelHansenFUN : Posting it may count as "fair use", as you'd be doing it for educational purposes, not for profit. You could post it &, in the description box, specifically disavow rights to it & claim "fair use". Just a thought.

[christoJihad2]

643 views? It should be 643 million! We're in a war for our very souls, my brothers and sisters, and I'm deathly afraid we've not only lost every battle, but that machine, those gears, those levers, are grinding our lives, our hearts, spirits and our souls to death, into lubricants for the next generation's souls, who are even less able to discern or fight against the evil we face. I'm afraid that only God can intervene now, and I wonder sometimes if He evens cares anymore.

[HickysBoy]

@christoJihad2 What are we to do, christo? I've tried to teach my four children with little success. The machine has them on a treadmill and they cannot see and care not about anything further away then the backs of their hands. They don't know Goethe from Goatee or Hitler from Hummer. They had the worst public school education of any generation in history. I tried talking to one of my boys about St Thomas Aquinas...another about Social Credit Theory... they looked at me like I was from Mars.

[HickysBoy]

Patriot, in the spirit of the Founding Fathers.