Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Photography by Ron Enfield
FSM leader Mario Savio gave an impassioned speech to the student protestors just before they began filing into the Administration Building. His rhetoric invoked classic labor-management conflict themes from past decades:
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part, you can't even tacitly take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to indicate to the people who own it, to the people who run it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."
