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People into voting booths and that is a photo i.d. >> so far president trump hasn't 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 we'll 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 us about this picture. >> this is the group that went to the nobel peace prize in december 1964. ...

We didn't 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 a tcampaign between hillary clinton and jeb bush, representing 36 years of bushes on national ticke...

You know, it was an absurdity. and i think this is much more than mitt romney. we didn't 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 a campaign between h...

We're a bunch of raw materials that don't have any process upon us, don't mean to be made into any product, don't 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. we're human beings. >> we're 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 you sick at heart, you can't passively take part and have to put your bodies upon the goals, the...

>> that was december 1964. from that very famous speech, there's a little bit of video from that speech which you've just seen there, there are some still images and audio of mario savio's entire speech. >> that doesn't 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. you have heard that before. that became one of the iconic rhetorical moments of the whole decade...