The Great Dictator
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That's not my business.
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I don't want to rule
or conquer anyone.

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I should like to help everyone:
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Jew, gentile, black man, white.
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We all want to help one another.
Human beings are like that.

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We want to live by each other's
happiness, not misery.

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We don't want to hate one another.
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In this world,
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the good earth is rich
and can provide for everyone.

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The way of life can be free
and beautiful

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but we have lost the way.
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Greed has poisoned men's souls,
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has barricaded the world with hate,
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has goose-stepped us into bloodshed.
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We have developed speed
but have shut ourselves in.

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Machinery has left us in want.
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Our knowledge has made us cynical,
our cleverness, hard and unkind.

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We think too much
and feel too little.

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More than machinery
we need humanity.

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More than cleverness
we need kindness and gentleness.

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Without these qualities, life will
be violent and all will be lost...

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The aeroplane and radio
have brought us closer.

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These inventions cry out
for the goodness in man,

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cry out for universal brotherhood,
for the unity of us all.

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Even now
my voice is reaching millions,

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millions of despairing men,
women and children,

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victims of a system
that makes men torture

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and imprison innocent people.
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To those who can hear me I say,
do not despair.

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The misery upon us
is but the passing of greed,

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the bitterness of men who fear
the way of human progress.

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The hate of men will pass,
and dictators die,

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and the power they took
will return to the people.

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So long as men die
liberty will never perish.

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Soldiers,
don't give yourselves to brutes,

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men who despise you, enslave you,
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regiment your lives,
tell you what to think and feel,

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who drill you, treat you like cattle
and use you as cannon fodder.

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Don't give yourselves to these men,
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machine men with machine minds
and machine hearts.


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