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Uploaded by on Jun 3, 2011

This is Charlie Chaplin's speech from The Great Dictator edited with "Time" by Hans Zimmer from the Inception Soundtrack.

Credit goes to [peop1e], 4Chan, and reddit for the inspiration.

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EDIT: I APOLOGIZE IF THERE ARE ADVERTISEMENTS ON THIS VIDEO. I AM NOT MAKING MONEY FROM THIS AND DO NOT WANT THE ADS ON IT.

NOTE: Some people have offered to translate this speech into other languages for Closed Captions/Subtitles.

If you'd like to translate it, you can download this SRT file:
http://andersonenvy.com/upload/youtube/let_us_all_unite.srt.zip

Simply download and unzip the file, and open it in any text editor. Leave the numbers alone, and only translate the English speech into your language. Then just save the file.

(If you 'Save As' ensure UTF-8 Encoding is selected)

Then send me an email and attach the SRT file.
Here is my email address: andersonenvy@andersonenvy.com

As I get translations, I'll add them to the video. So far we have:
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Dutch
- English
- Esperanto
- French
- Finnish
- German
- Greek
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Romanian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Spanish (Latin America)
- Swedish

Thanks to everyone who offered to translate the speech.

This is Chaplin's speech in English:

"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. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty. In the seventeenth chapter of Saint 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 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 aged security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill that 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, 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!"

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  • @Lemonhead87 Please see the video description. I have no control over the advertisement on this video, am not making money from it, and do not want it there..

  • the greatest speech in the history of mankind.

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  • @jGip12345

    we dont have to..

  • @jGop1234

    we don't have to...

  • @bulkpaq4713 Why do we have to fight?

  • 70 years ago, mankind fight for freedom.. Today, mankind fight for what?? Music, movies.. It makes me sick..

  • I watch this almost daily when I feel that humanity has no hope left. It always lifts me back up.

  • I believe in This!

  • I cry when I watch this video, I'm filled with empowerment and love, to know that such a speech was written.

  • 35 people dont belive in a free nation .

  • Is there a way to get this as a higher quality MP3 or something? It's a good reminder of righteousness, a reminder of the hidden chivalry inside of us all, for us all to listen this once in a while to not forget how powerful this speech+music is :)

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