Mario Savio's sit-in address on the steps of Sproul Hall
at the University of California at Berkeley.
Delivered on December 2, 1964.
at the University of California at Berkeley.
Delivered on December 2, 1964.
"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!"
[Prolonged applause]
"Now, no more talking. We're going to march in singing 'We Shall Overcome. Slowly; there are a lot of us. Up here to the left -- I didn't mean the pun."
Link to Mario Savio Memorial Lecture website: www.savio.org
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