[Talk] just to continue a political slant...

[Terry Richards]

Speech from the Great Dictator

http://www.charliechaplin.com/article.php3?id_article=62

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I'm 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 man - 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 has 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 men - 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 -
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 the 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 17th Chapter of St Luke it is 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 fulfil that promise. They never
will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us
fight to fulfil 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!

:-) ^2