to say the least, this clip is moving. Words can't really describe its worth. In context, this is a clip from the Climax of Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator." The character you see is a Jewish barber who looks much like the dictator of a fictional country called Tomainia, he is asked, his soldiers believing he is the dictator to make a speech denouncing Freedom and praising the supremacy of the state; however... well I'll let the clip speak for itself.
the Hopes and fears we have today are not new, they are at least as Old as Charlie Chaplin and almost certainly older. They are the same Hopes and fears that allowed Emancipation and Suffrage, as well as dictatorship and authoritarianism. Hopefully Chuck here can set the record straight though. For his Speech in "The Great Dictator" Charlie Chaplin gets a posthumus Rebel of the Day award. What will be our path, Progress, Freedom and Generosity, or destruction, enslavement and greed? Or something in between, I don't like dealing in absolutes (that's Sith territory).
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