Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!
— Charlie Chaplin Modern

Silent film legend

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From the final speech in 'The Great Dictator'.

Date / Period

1940

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Controversial

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/833481-i-told-myself-malala-you-have-already-fa…

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