listen & read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyVMNShdAc (with text)
Charlie
Chaplin's timeless speech
TRANSCRIPT:
"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. the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty. In the seventeenth
chapter of Saint Luke it is written: "Thekingdom 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 a security. By the promise of these things,
brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill their 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!"
ELLLO
MANSION
INGLES
OMPERSONAL
DOCUMENTARIES
CAMPUS TOPICS
http://www.eslfast.com/robot/
PERSONALITY TRAITS
Chinese zodiac signs
1.THE RAT
2.THE OX
3.THE TIGER
4.THE
RABBIT
5.THE
DRAGON
6.THE SNAKE
7.THE HORSE
8.THE GOAT
9.THE
MONKEY
10.THE
ROOSTER
11.THE DOG
12.THE PIG
http://edition.englishclub.com/podcasts/chinese-zodiac/pig/
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