Mario Savio (1942 – 1996). American activist and key member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He is most famous for his passionate speeches, especially the "Bodies Upon the Gears" address given at Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley on December 2, 1964.
Savio remains historically relevant as an icon of the earliest phase of the 1960s counterculture movement.
Savio was born in New York City to a Sicilian-born Italian-American father who designed and manufactured restaurant equipment. Savio's mother was also of Italian ancestry (from Veneto), though born in the US. Both his parents were devout Catholics and, as an altar boy, Savio planned to become a priest.
- "He had long, sandy red hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=iuaeEX-1yKgC&pg=PA83...
- "He scowled beneath longish, sandy-red hair." https://books.google.it/books?id=WW2jpQ36kSAC&pg=PA22...
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