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 TVs 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.
[shouting] You've got to say:
'I'm a human being, god-dammit! 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 gonna 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! --- Network
