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A leading member of the 1960s Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio was a student free-speech activist. The son of a machinist, he showed his excellence in physics and later majored in philosophy. Suspended from Berkeley for his political activities, he worked odd jobs and later became an educator.