A Message For All Of Humanity
April 16th, 2013
I'm going to be totally honest here and admit that when I first watched this video yesterday I cried my eyes out. The 3 minute message could not be more spot on. And from Charlie Chaplin no less! "You, THE PEOPLE have the power to make this life FREE and Beautiful; to make this life a wonderful adventure!" And I say....let's get it on!
The impact of the video inspired me to transcribe the monologue, which I share here with those here who would prefer to read :)
~BK
(Note: changed my notes to blue, I think it suits me better than red lol)
A Message for All of Humanity
I’m sorry 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 airplane 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.
For those who can hear me, I say, DO NOT despair.
The misery that is now upon 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 parish.
Soldiers, DON’T give yourselves to brutes; men who despise
you and slave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to DO, what to THINK
and what to FEEL. Who drill you, dye at you, treat you like cattle, use you as
cannon fodder.
Don’t give yourselves to these un-natural 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
man a chance to work, that will give youth a future, that will give 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!
