Fourty Years Ago and Still Rings True, by Jeffrey Veen

Fourty Years Ago and Still Rings True

"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."

From a speech by Mario Savio in Berkeley, California, on December 3, 1964. Read all of his words here. Don't passively take part. Register to vote before October 18, 2004 at MoveOn.org.

This entry was written by Jeffrey Veen and posted 11 October 2004 at 9:18 PM. It was filed under Personal. | View blog reactions

Comments

1. On 12 October 2004 at 1:44 AM grant wrote:

fourty? forty?

2. On 12 October 2004 at 3:51 AM The Wolf wrote:

Aye to that! :)

3. On 12 October 2004 at 5:10 AM Kathy wrote:

omg -- read this right after entering the building this a.m. to find the place decked out in balloons and such for another pseudo holiday -- the latest half-feeble attempt to raise a party atmosphere here and staunch the bleeding of away of a slipping away morale ... thank you

4. On 12 October 2004 at 12:04 PM Mike Monteiro wrote:

Super Mario!

5. On 13 October 2004 at 9:09 AM grant wrote:

Also, in the list below, it should be 'ornamental', not 'ornimental'.

6. On 16 October 2004 at 9:47 AM random rebel wrote:

It certainly does still ring true! However, I don't think he's calling for voting in that famous speech (which you do by plugging moveon.org). His words suggest a call for massive resistance to a rolling juggernaut of war & repression, just like we have today. You can't stop that by voting. It's not on the ballot and neither candidate even suggests stopping it. One will press ahead, the other might tweak it a little and then press ahead with it. That's hardly different! And when did you get to vote on starting it in the first place? You didn't.

7. On 28 October 2004 at 10:30 AM Lenny Cooper wrote:

Yeah, Super Mario! ;-))

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