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Mario Savio

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American activist (1942–1996)

Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • People of the State of California, plaintiff and respondent, versus Mario Savio and 571 others, defendants and appellants
  • Revuelta de Berkeley
  • Berkeley
  • People of the state of California vs. Mario Savio and 571 others
  • The Free Speech Movement and the Negro revolution

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1942-12-08
Active to
1996-11-06

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
131
Total plays
338

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Quotes

  • 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!
  • "The "futures" and "careers" for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. But an important minority of men and women coming to the front today have shown they will die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant.
  • The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the most efficient way to see to it that they have the fewest dissenting opinions, that they have just those characteristics which are wholly incompatible with being an intellectual. This is a real internal psychological contradiction. People have to suppress the very questions which reading books raises.
  • I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made me get up and give that first speech. I only know I had to. What was it Kierkegaard said about free acts? They're the ones that, looking back, you realize you couldn't help doing.
  • You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.
  • Freedom of speech is something that represents the very dignity of what a human being is. If you cannot speak... I mean, that's what marks us off. That's what marks us off from the stones and the stars. You can speak freely. It is almost impossible for me to describe. It is the thing that marks us as just below the angels. I don't want to push this beyond where it should be pushed, but I feel it.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Mario
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
New York City
Place of death
Sebastopol
Image
MarioSavio.JPG
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date of birth
1942-12-08
date of death
1996-11-06
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Mario Savio
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