Wisdom from Charlie Chaplin – Let Us All Unite

Wisdom from Charlie Chaplin that is still applicable today.

Sir Charles Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 — 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work in the United States during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919.

Charlie Chaplin – Let Us All Unite
Lyrics:

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. In this world there is 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
We think too much and feel too little

More than machinery, we need humanity
More than cleverness, we need kindness
Without these qualities life would be violent
And all would be lost

Do not despair
The hate of men will pass
And dictators die
And the power they took from the people

Will return to the people
Let us all unite!
Let us fight for a new world
To do away with greed
Now let us fight to free the world
To fulfill that promise
Let us all unite!

Soldiers, don’t give yourselves to brutes
Men who despise you enslave you
Tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel
Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men
Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts
You are not machines
You are men

You the people have the power
To make this life free and beautiful
Let us use that power
To make this life a wonderful adventure

Let us all unite!
Let us fight for a new world
To do away with greed
Now let us fight to free the world
To fulfill that promise

Let us all unite!
Let us fight for a new world
To do away with greed
A world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness

Do not despair
The hate of men will pass
And dictators die
And the power they took from the people
Will return to the people
Charlie Chaplin – Let Us All Unite
Charlie Chaplin – Let Us All Unite
Charlie Chaplin – Let Us All Unite
Charlie Chaplin – Let Us All Unite
Charlie Chaplin – Let Us All Unite
Charlie Chaplin – Let Us All Unite
Charlie Chaplin – Let Us All Unite

How will you implement Charlie’s Message?