First Russian and Ukraine War!
Now Israel and Hamas war!
The great comedy actor Charlie Chaplin’s words are very significant at this point of time.
You must speak.
I can’t.
You must. It’s our only hope.
Hope?
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 would like to help everyone. If possible Jew, Gentile, black man, white etc. 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. Have a good earth that 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 and has barricaded the world with hate and 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, 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 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 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, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think of what to feel. Who drills you, treats you like cattle, uses you as cannon fodder.
Don’t give yourselves to these men with machine minds and machine hearts.
You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are man.
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 Saint Luke it is written “the Kingdom of God is within men.” Not one man or a group of men, but in all men. In you!
The people have the power. You have the power to create machines. The power to create happiness. You know 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. A world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age 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 the happiness of all;
Soldiers, In the name of democracy, let us all unite.
