Charlie Chaplin's 1940 anti-fascist speech from The Great Dictator, as a song.
Charlie Chaplin in Let us all Unite
The Great Dictator's Speech ...
Lyrics :
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.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
We think too much and feel too little
More than machinery, we need humanity
More than cleverness, we need kindness
Without these qualities, life would be violent
And all would be lost
Do not despair
The hate of men will pass
And dictators die
And the power they took from the people
Will return to the people
Let us all unite!
Let us fight for a new world
To do away with greed
Now let us fight to free the world
To fulfill that promise
Let us all unite!
Soldiers, don’t give yourselves to brutes
Men who despise you and slave you
Tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel
Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle
Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men
Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts
You are not machines
You are men
You the people have the power
To make this life free and beautiful
Let us use that power
To make this life a wonderful adventure.
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