"Now, there are at least two ways in which sit-ins and civil disobedience and whatever -- least two major ways in which it can occur. One, when a law exists, is promulgated, which is totally unacceptable to people and they violate it again and again and again till it's rescinded, appealed. Alright, but there's another way. There's another way. Sometimes, the form of the law is such as to render impossible its effective violation -- as a method to have it repealed. Sometimes, the grievances of people are more -- extend more -- to more than just the law, extend to a whole mode of arbitrary power, a whole mode of arbitrary exercise of arbitrary power. And that's what we have here. We have an autocracy which -- which runs this university."
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Mario Savio, "Sit-in Address on the Steps of Sproul Hall," December 2, 1964, The University of California at Berkeley, republished at americanrhetoric.com; Also republished at Robert Cohen (2009) Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s. p. 327
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