Mario Savio on the operation of the machine

"We asked the following: if President Kerr actually tried to get something more liberal out of the Regents in his telephone conversation, why didn't he make some public statement to that effect? And the answer we received -- from a well-meaning liberal -- was the following: He said, "Would you ever imagine the manager of a firm making a statement publicly in opposition to his board of directors?" That's the answer! Now, I ask you to consider: if this is a firm, and if the Board of Regents are the board of directors, and if President Kerr in fact is the manager, then I'll tell you something: the faculty are a bunch of employees, and we're the raw material! But we're a bunch of raw material[s] that don't mean to have any process upon us, don't mean to be made into any product, don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We're human beings!

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!"

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[Bronsonkicks]

And where are the public speakers today of this man’s caliber……there are not any.

[Taya Michel]

Wretches and Kings!!!

[TimmySparxUPGRADED]

We come for you

[HailDaFins]

Ron Paul

[RacerPlanetZX1]

Thanks to Fear Factory, now I can truely see how much this guy had passion.

[Toni Gomez]

Humans are tragic organisms, constantly trying to do better, and consistently failing in that endeavor. There is a nobility in that failure. There is always hope that someone will do better.

[MyHellboy87]

so true

[davidomegaspear]

definitely the best civil disobedience speeches ive ever heard and i hope to god he wrote it cuz that would make it much more powerful, knowing its coming from him and not a writer

[juliancisthebest]

I don't appreciate being talked down to, so "you must not" do that. I'm not a freaking idiot just because I disagree with your opinion on what I think is a "crappy band." It's a freaking opinion. If you don't like it, who cares. Not my problem.

[Iorwyn Leroy]

I can understand that you hate it when the comments of this speech are about Linkin Park, but you must not call them a 'crappy band'...