{"id":19418,"date":"2017-05-29T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T14:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=19418"},"modified":"2017-05-29T11:03:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:03:06","slug":"the-speech-to-end-all-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=19418","title":{"rendered":"The Speech To End All Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Charlie Chaplin &#8211; Final Speech from &#8220;The Great Dictator&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nKm_wA-WdI4<\/p>\n<h3>Text of the speech:<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but I don\u2019t want to be an emperor. That\u2019s not my business. I don\u2019t want to<br \/>\nrule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible \u2013 Jew, Gentile \u2013 black<br \/>\nman \u2013 white.<\/p>\n<p>We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each<br \/>\nother\u2019s happiness \u2013 not by each other\u2019s misery. We don\u2019t want to hate and despise one<br \/>\nanother. In this world there\u2019s room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can<br \/>\nprovide for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned<br \/>\nmen\u2019s souls \u2013 has barricaded the world with hate \u2013 has goose-stepped us into misery and<br \/>\nbloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that<br \/>\ngives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness,<br \/>\nhard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need<br \/>\nhumanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these<br \/>\nqualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.<\/p>\n<p>The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these<br \/>\ninventions cries out for the goodness in man \u2013 cries for universal brotherhood \u2013 for the<br \/>\nunity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world \u2013 millions of<br \/>\ndespairing men, women, and little children \u2013 victims of a system that makes men torture<br \/>\nand imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say: \u2018Do not despair.\u2019 The<br \/>\nmisery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed \u2013 the bitterness of men who fear<br \/>\nthe way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power<br \/>\nthey took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will<br \/>\nnever perish.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers! Don\u2019t give yourselves to brutes \u2013 men who despise you and enslave you \u2013 who<br \/>\nregiment your lives \u2013 tell you what to do \u2013 what to think and what to feel! Who drill you \u2013<br \/>\ndiet you \u2013 treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don\u2019t give yourselves to these<br \/>\nunnatural men \u2013 machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not<br \/>\nmachines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts.<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t hate, only the unloved hate \u2013 the unloved and the unnatural!<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers! Don\u2019t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St Luke,<br \/>\nit is written the kingdom of God is within man not one man nor a group of men, but in all<br \/>\nmen! In you! You, the people, have the power \u2013 the power to create machines. The power<br \/>\nto create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful<br \/>\n\u2013 to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy \u2013 let us use<br \/>\nthat power \u2013 let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world \u2013 a decent world that will give<br \/>\nmen a chance to work \u2013 that will give youth a future and old age a security.<\/p>\n<p>By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not<br \/>\nfulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the<br \/>\npeople. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world \u2013 to do away<br \/>\nwith national barriers \u2013 to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for<br \/>\na world of reason \u2013 a world where science and progress will lead to all men\u2019s happiness.<br \/>\nSoldiers, in the name of democracy, let us unite!<\/p>\n<p>Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hannah. The clouds are lifting! The<br \/>\nsun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming<br \/>\ninto a new world \u2013 a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and<br \/>\ntheir brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is<br \/>\nbeginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow \u2013 into the light of hope, into the future, the<br \/>\nglorious future that belongs to you, to me, and to all of us. Look up, Hannah\u2026 look up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nKm_wA-WdI4\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nKm_wA-WdI4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Chaplin &#8211; Final Speech from &#8220;The Great Dictator&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}