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Charlie Chaplin speech from The Great Dictator-
"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's 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 man - cries 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 men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate.
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! You, the people, have the power - 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 unite!

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  • the irony is that the speaker looks and talks like hitler

  • That is because Hitler was the character that Charlie Chaplin played in that movie : The Great Dictator.

  • i wish you translated it in french!!

  • you can use google translate for this, it will not be perfect but you'll be able to understand it better ;)

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  • completely ruined by the shitty music.

    How am i meant to listen and absorb with some bitch wailing in the background?

  • America hasn't had a President since J.F.Kennedy who could write such a speech on his own, for two reasons, none of them were smart enough, and none of them probably agreed with the text. If it weren't for speechwriters and millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions, none of them would ever have been elected.

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  • @jkl1234567890 ow thats deep man, really deep, yes really deeptroath

  • REJECT!

  • RESPECT! 

  • Charlie Chaplin tried to warn the WORLD, esp. U.S., long before...& for this he was ejected from Babylon {U.S. was complicit w/ Hitler...[Ford] read yer History, not the official bullshite, i knew this as a child...*

  • Absolutely SLAUGHTERED by the music. Why would you do such a thing?!

  • in the near future certain people will gain great abilities to change the world for the better. reality will be turned upside down and a great evolution will take place

  • why did u add  background song

  • @sharky168 try this one /watch?v=bUT6jX7IfZ0

  • did you have to add the loud annoying music?i can barely hear what hes saying.Boo!

  • @jkl1234567890 DON'T TALK BAD ABOUT CHARLIE CHAPLIN OK

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