Following is the last speech delivered by the world's greatest commedian Charlie Chapline i found this speech recently in the internet i was deeply mesmerised by his words it really touched me, so i taught of sharing with u people...
here it goes.......
Hope… 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 all 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 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 [now] 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 as cattle, 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, the people.
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’s 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 you
the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes
have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their 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, 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!”
Charlie Chapline...
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