Charlie Reaches Out Across the Decades
Forty-nine years ago, when I first heard Charles Chaplin give this speech at the end of The Great Dictator, I was changed forever.
Charlie Chaplin was one of the the bravest men who ever lived. That speech, more than anything else I can think of, was my political awakening. Think about it: The greatest speech in all recorded human history was not made by a politician. It was not made by a king. It was not made by a queen. It was not made by a prince or a princess. It was not made by a preacher. It was not made by a businessman or woman. It was not made by an old soldier or a young one. It was not made by a billionaire. It was not made by a potentate. It was not made by a senator or a congressman. It was not made by a president....
The greatest speech in all recorded human history was made by a little tramp. Go figure.
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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!
Charles Spencer Chaplin, 1940
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Here is a link to listen to Chaplin deliver this brilliant oration on YouTube:
"Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men!"
posted by Tom Degan @ 12:18 PM
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Mofart
Here's some news from CNN as found on your go to source for the news, YouTube.
CNN’s Zeleny: We Haven’t Seen Biden Answer Questions “Without His Aides Screaming At Him To Stop”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_PFmao5NF4&t=1s
WOW! Even CNN is starting to color Biden in a different light!
JTF forgot to tell us Charlie Chaplin was a socialist/commie/Nazi.
We all know he did NOT read his words. They were about him.
No Dave.
Get rid of the slashes in that. Obviously he was a Mega Mecha-SocialistCommieNazi. I MEAN LOOK AT HIS MUSTACHE.
You should know that Fox (R) does NOT run clips of the Trump's 1/6 coup. It runs clips of BLM protests on constant replay.
The authoritarians cannot even question that policy. They embrace it.
BLM is not news. Trump's ongoing civil war is.
Chaplin would cry at seeing the rise of our racist radical Right.
BUT HIS MUSTACHE
CNN Heralds Biden Foreign Trip Victory to Americans, But CNN’s European Readers See: ‘Putin Got Exactly What He Wanted’
P.S. Trump is not President
Who knew Dave Dubya watches Fox News? Always thought he was a Right Winger, this just proves it.
Maybe Dave can tell us how many more blacks have died while in police custody from previous years vs 2020 like he claimed? Nah, following Mofart's advise, he doesn't answer "bad questions". Or any questions for that matter.
LMAO
Sybil once again posting irrelevant nonsense.
And one does not have to be conservative to check ALL sources, but I get his confusion since cons ONLY seem to watch conservative news.
UNLESS they find something misrepresented on Twitter or Youtube. LOL
Notice how well they "edited" the comment on Youtube? LOL
Vern isn't quite bright enough to see the disconnect here: ‘Putin Got Exactly What He Wanted’ P.S. Trump is not President.
LMAO.
Putin wanted his puppet back to kiss his ass again. He didn't get it, did he?
It was an armed insurrection.
U.S. charges Jan. 6 defendant with bringing firearms to Capitol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/rare-weapons-charge-capitol-riot/2021/06/17/9abef4ec-cf94-11eb-8cd2-4e95230cfac2_story.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_politics
U.S. prosecutors for the first time have charged a defendant in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach with violating a federal law that makes it a crime to transport a firearm or explosive for unlawful use in a riot.
The rare weapons charge was handed up Wednesday in a five-count superseding indictment against Guy Wesley Reffitt, 48, who prosecutors say brought a rifle and semiautomatic handgun to Washington and recruited members to a right-wing Texas Three Percenters group claiming he had created a new security business to circumvent gun laws.
“We can get ammo and weapons available to law enforcement. . . . The fight has only just begun,” Reffitt allegedly wrote, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey S. Nestler said earlier this year.
Reffitt, of Wylie, Tex., previously pleaded not guilty to three charges of obstructing Congress’s joint session to confirm the 2020 presidential election results, trespassing on restricted Capitol grounds and witness tampering. Prosecutors in court filings said he brought an AR-15 rifle and a Smith & Wesson on his trip, and was recorded telling his family he carried them to the Capitol.
“I did bring a weapon on property that we own. Federal grounds or not. The law is written, but it doesn’t mean it’s right law. The people that were around me were all carrying, too,” prosecutors quoted Reffitt saying in a court filing.
Russian President Putin polls higher than President Biden among Trump voters, per new polling from Economist/YouGov.
Biden: 9% Favorable, 89% Unfavorable
Putin 19% Favorable, 69% Unfavorable
Putin's "Patriotic" Puppets.
BTW, Sybil, we know Trump isn't President. Thanks fort admitting that THE ELECTION WASN'T STOLEN.
As for "Putin got exactly what he wanted", do you want to tell the WHOLE story or should I humiliate you once again?
Proof again that Dave has left CNN for FOX. Smart move Dave.
Brian Stelter, a left-wing conspiracy theorist and a proven liar at far-left CNN, has lost nearly three-quarters of his audience since January.
“The latest episode of Stelter’s show failed to attract 1 million viewers for the 11th week in a row,” reports the Daily Wire. “A mere 752,000 total viewers tuned in … on Sunday. That’s down from a peak of 2.7 million viewers following the January 6 Capitol riot.”
And that’s a 72 percent collapse.
After five years of the anti-Trump outlet deliberately lying to the public about…
Russia collusion
Obstruction of justice
The Wuhan lab leak
Hydroxychloroquine
A Capitol police officer being bashed in the head with a fire extinguisher
Russian bounties
The clearing of Lafayette Square
The Very Fine People Hoax
The Muslim ban
Hunter Biden’s laptop is fake
Voting rights are under attack
And on and on and on and on.
Maybe Extreme Far Left CNN should ask Biden some of those those famous Mofart "bad questions", LMAO
YouGov is a British international Internet-based market research and data analytics firm, headquartered in the UK, just saying.
Another White Supremacist at work.
Black Evangelical Pastor Pleads With Christians to Reject 'Unbiblical' Critical Justice Theories.
Voddie Baucham Jr., a well-regarded author, Christian intellectual, and pastor, might have ended up a statistic. Raised by a single mother in South Central Los Angeles, which was then in the throes of the crack epidemic, Baucham could very well have been just another tragedy in a long line of sad stories about kids who grow up in the hood, fatherless and hopeless. Critical race theory proponents, who have infiltrated nearly every aspect of our culture, would say that no one could blame Baucham if he’d ended up jobless, homeless, or in prison. The movement—which sorts all humans according to their immutable characteristics and ranks them in hierarchies of oppression or victimhood—would claim that Baucham was born a victim simply by virtue of his skin color.
Hey, look, everybody!
Just The Falsehoods Vern's fellow racist and Putin Patriot Puppet Tucker Carlson is getting Kremlin approval.
Russia's state TV plays another clip of Tucker Carlson, quoting Putin's questions about the Capitol insurrectionists. Kremlin propagandists conclude: "We hit the mark. Putin was heard. Bullseye." They add that this proves they should continue influencing public opinion in the US.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1405676978888482820
But Russia doesn't interfere on behalf of Republicans...amirite, Komrad Vernovich?
Putin Puppet Vern will side with a real KGB commie before siding with America.
Russia collusion
PROVEN IN MUELLER REPORT.
Obstruction of justice
PROVEN IN MUELLER REPORT
The Wuhan lab leak
STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION, BUT CLEARLY NOT A DELIBERATE ACT
Hydroxychloroquine
STILL NOT EFFECTIVE AGAINST COVID 19
A Capitol police officer being bashed in the head with a fire extinguisher
HASN'T BEEN SAID BY ANYONE BUT CONSERVATIVES FOR MONTHS
Russian bounties
PROVEN
The clearing of Lafayette Square
PROVEN
The Very Fine People Hoax
HE ACTUALLY SAID IT, IT'S ON VIDEO
The Muslim ban
HE ACTUALLY ATTEMPTED IT
Hunter Biden’s laptop is fake
IT IS,IF NOT, WHERE IS IT?
Voting rights are under attack
CLEARLY THEY ARE.
And on and on and on and on.
YES..."ON AND ON, AND ON", WITH BS YOU CAN'T BACK UP.
Come on Sybil, who do you think you are fooling?
Alina Chan is a biologist at the Silver lab at the Harvard School of Medicine.Chan is one of 18 scientists who finally admitted in the journal of Science last month that the Wuhan coronvirus likely originated in a Wuhan, China virology lab.Chan says liberal scientists lied to the American public for months about their beliefs on the origination of the virus. They did this because they didn’t want to be associated with President Trump — who was right about the virus all along.
As the Arizona audit of 2020 ballots winds down, progressive activists — continuing the tradition they laid out in that extraordinary TIME Magazine article where they admitted all the things they did to ensure a Biden win — are now admitting to traveling from California to Arizona and Georgia to help cure ballots in the days following the election.A California nonprofit called Unite Here is profiled in yet another extraordinary piece in The Atlantic in which they admit they sent activists across state lines to Arizona to help “cure” ballots in the days following the election.The article titled, “How Unite Here Turned the West’s Biggest Red State Blue”
You know what's hilarious? The words 'liberal scientist'.
We have to create entire concepts that don't exist in order to other, deride, ridicule and dismiss reality.
This is the best that "conservative thought lemmings" can manage.
And now Sybil will tell us how being an "activist" is a bad thing.
ac·tiv·ist
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noun
a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change.
"activists have been calling for change"
adjective
campaigning to bring about political or social change.
"activist groups around the world are organizing solidarity events"
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