December 1964 News Today

People into voting booths and that is a photo i.d. >> so far president trump hasnt turned their ideas into action. >> look, the reality is no one is really interested in trying to make it more convenient for people to vote. >> to get more people to the polls well need to do more to restore faith in a system that has left so many disenfranchised and disillusioned. but sometimes before you can build a better future we need to look back at our past. have you ever seen this picture? >> you guys tell...

We didnt blow it because of mitt romney. we blew it because of a party which has refused to engage the reality of american life and refused to take -- to think through what the average american needs for a better future. >> but recall what you said about 1964. in december 1964, lyndon johnson was re-elected. goldwater was finished. it was the end of the republican party. and at the end, the republicans nominated a man named richard nixon. and he became president. unthinkable. >> so you can have ...

You know, it was an absurdity. and i think this is much more than mitt romney. we didnt blow it because of mitt romney. we blew it because of a party which has refused to engage the reality of american life and refused to take -- to think through what the average american needs for a better future. >> but recall what you said about 1964. in december 1964, lyndon johnson was re-elected. goldwater was finished. it was the end of the republican party. and at the end, the republicans nominated a man...

Were a bunch of raw materials that dont have any process upon us, dont mean to be made into any product, dont mean to end up being bought by some clients of the university, be that government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone. were human beings. >> were human beings. mario savio, his big speech that day at cal in 1964 culminated with this famous rallying cry to the students who had assembled there. >> the time when the operation of the machine becomes so onious, makes yo...

>> that was december 1964. from that very famous speech, theres a little bit of video from that speech which youve just seen there, there are some still images and audio of mario savios entire speech. >> that doesnt mean you have to break anything. 1,000 people sitting down someplace, not letting anybody birks not letting anything happen, can stop any machine, including this machine, and it will stop. >> mario savio, part of him there talking about putting your body on the gears of the machine. ...

That dont have any process upon us, dont mean to be made into any product, dont mean to end up being bought by some clients of the university, be that government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone. were human beings. >> were human beings. mario savio, his big speech that day at cal in 1964 culminated with this famous rallying cry to the students who had assembled there. >> the time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you sick at heart, you cant pass...