This Is The Message That All Thinking Men And Women Should Carry Into Battle Against Tyranny!

We, The People of The United States of America find ourselves at the crossroads of history today. Do we allow those that wish for us nothing more than an existence of indentured servitude to their whims and desires to win, or do we make a stand for truth, justice and that little heard phrase, the American Way! We are being saddled with an economy that, in the end, will deplete us of all of what defines us as a Nation of honorable men and women.

Their avarice is attempting to usurp what is the definition of being an American. Once, we were admired by all nations, all races, all peoples of the World. But today, we find ourselves hated in many corners of this World because on OUR watch, we have permitted those whose only reasons for drawing breath is to subjugate their fellow brothers and sisters.

There is talk of how bullies have taken over playgrounds of schools. I say there is a larger, more aggressive bully that exists on the World stage that is far more insidious, far more hungry for power and wealth than at any other time in the History of Mankind.

Greed and selfishness is their God. They bow down to no national flag. They do not wish to join in and become a member of the Community of Human Beings. They are worth far more than you or me, in their own eyes.

They cannot be made to see. They cannot be made to listen to reason. They cannot be made to come down from their lofty perches, either.

It is up to us, each and every one of us to make a stand against their tryannical ways or we shall face our own doom together.

Speech from Charlie Chaplin's
'The Great Dictator' - 1940

Hynkel: 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 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's 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.

Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, 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.

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 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.

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 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, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up.
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