An intense, wiry young man named Mario Savio, addressing the conscience of the nation through a thicket of microphones as students and reporters swirl around him. 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 indicate to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machines will be prevented from working at all. There aren't going to be any riots. Savio's metaphor of the machine shaped the language of the entire youth movement that was to come. Taking on injustices like Proposition 209, one at a time, until his death of heart failure on Wednesday, Savio proved himself worthy of the attention he earned as a young man.
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