The bomb explodes 47 seconds into the episode.
The "sinning by silence" quote mentioned by Levine and Beckett refers to a line by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in the 1914 poem 'Protest' (from 'Poems of Problems'): "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men." It was wrongly attributed to Lincoln by Gen Douglas MacArthur in 1950, paraphrased in the form Beckett uses (dropping the word "out"), although the poem was published 49 years after Lincoln died.
The "Take Over Wall Street" protest in the episode was inspired by the "Occupy Wall Street" protest in New York City in the fall of 2011. That protest inspired numerous other protests in the USA.