Charlie Chaplin Quotes
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.
Chaplin, Charlie. The Great Dictator. United Artists, 1940.
See Thomas Jefferson: {605051} for a somewhat similar notion.
Also inscribed inside the pedestal of the Statuary of Liberty.
Helen Keller was a remarkable woman who was blind and deaf, and yet she became a great orator and social reformer.
Those who have fought against dictatorial governments for their basic human rights, found after victory and the overthrow of the dictator, that there was another force fighting for control which would deny citizens human rights based on a theocracy. They wanted the end of the dictator so they could use their interpretation of a religion as the excuse to deny all citizens basic human rights.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, The Tramp, and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.
