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Just seen this clip, and it's from a 1976 movie filmed during the oil crisis, called "Network".   And guess what?  We are in another oil crisis, 30 years later.  Because of that, this movie scene is still 100% relevant!

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"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy.

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

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~timid-wolf Jan 28, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
I like this quote
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:iconpanzerschreckleopard:
o.o

(Must resist UHF quote...XD)
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:iconlazyrayfinkle:
I'd love to hear about people sticking their heads out their windows yelling "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
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*hankypanky68 Jan 26, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Just let me know when the pitchforks and torches will march on Washington! The founding fathers would be rolling over in there graves if they knew what America has turned into! Everyone in Washington should be impeached if you ask me! These idiots are worthless! I am really not very political but stupid is as stupid does! Can you say DUMB ASS! I really do not give a crap about politics but I am not stupid! Like I said, " Pitchforks and torches," might wake some corrupt public official. Seriously, do you trust our government? Bastards!
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