the conscience of political action

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Forty years ago, "In the summer of 1964, Mario Savio was among the university students who joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Mississippi Summer Project."

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"He was then, and remained until his death, the conscience of the movement. He did not participate in political action because he enjoyed it or hoped to benefit from it. In fact, it cost him dearly. He was a man who felt that he had a personal, inescapable moral obligation to defend those who were oppressed, particularly when they were being deceived by their oppressors and could be awakened by hearing the truth."


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1. wow Mario Savio, he was my hero

i agree I wish he was around today