Charlie Chaplin needs
no introduction. He is the greatest comedian of all time and he has given us
some of the most amazing movies throughout his acting career. He has always
been a house hold name. But very few people know that he was a very evolved man
and went through lot of hardship in the beginning of his life. After the death
of his father he was thrown to earn his own bread and butter to take care of
his ill mother and little brother.
This video speech is
taken from his very famous movie from 1940 called "The Great
Dictator". In this video Charlie Chaplin is giving a beautiful message of
Love to all humanity. In this video he is telling us how we can bring peace,
love & togetherness to the entire human race.
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"I am sorry but I don’t
want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer
anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men,
white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to
live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to
hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the
good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free
and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
"Greed has poisoned
men’s souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into
misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us
cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too
little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need
kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all
will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The
very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out
for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
"Even now my voice is
reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and
little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison
innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say “Do not despair.” The misery
that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear
the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and
the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as
men die, liberty will never perish.
"Soldiers! Don’t give
yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your
lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet
you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder! Don’t give yourselves to
these unnatural men—machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are
not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have a love of humanity in
your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the
unnatural.
"Soldiers! Don’t fight
for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it’s
written “the kingdom of God is within man”, not one man nor a group of men, but
in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create
machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to
make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.
"Let us all unite. Let
us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work,
that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these
things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their
promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the
people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the
world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and
intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and
progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Soldiers, in the name
of democracy, let us all unite!"
