Bernie Sanders 2016!!!
"The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions,
and good human decisions can change them.
The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to do it for them. I don’t represent the big-money interests and I don’t want their money.
What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children?
We have billions to spend on war but no money to take care of the very pressing needs of the
American people.
That bothers me a lot.
Children should not go hungry in this country while profitable corporations and the wealthy avoid their tax responsibilities.
Education must become affordable to all.
Health care should be a right, not a privilege.
Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.
I believe that at the end of the day when people come together, when people are united there is nothing, nothing, nothing that can stop us." - Sanders
TRANSCRIPT:
"We shouldn't want to rule or conquer anyone. We 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, liberty will never perish
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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. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: 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, 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 and 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, 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!"
-"
The Great Dictator" (
1940), written, produced, directed and played by
Charlie Chaplin in 1940!
Perhaps one of the greatest speeches ever made by someone most have us have probably never heard speak before. And what was said 75 years ago holds even today. That means things haven't changed much. But there's hope for humanity...
- published: 06 Dec 2015
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