チャップリンの独裁者
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Handout③
ＴＨＥ ＧＲＥＡＴ ＤＩＣＴＡＴＯＲ
ＣＨＡＲＬＥＳ ＣＨＡＰＬＩＮ
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 men, 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 or 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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!
Hannah can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hannah.
The clouds are lifting the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness
into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise
above their hate their greed and brutality. Look up Hannah. The soul of man has been
given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into
the light of hope into the future, the glorious future that belongs to you to me and
to all of us.
Look up, Hannah. Look up!
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