these words are from mario savio's memorable speech, before Free Speech Movement demonstrators entered sproul hall on the UC-Berkeley campus to begin their sit-in on december 3, 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!"
when will we decide it is time again to throw our bodies upon the gears? complacency. apathy. passivity. all enemies of a true democracy.
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