查理·卓別林/Charlie Chaplin
查理·卓別林（1889—1977），好萊塢著名喜劇演員、導演和反戰人士。出生於倫敦一個貧苦演員家庭，父母都是遊藝場的歌舞演員。童年動**不安，很早就開始獨立謀生。1914年，因飾演流浪漢夏爾洛而一舉聞名。他一生拍攝過大量電影，代表作有《淘金記》《大馬戲團》《城市之光》《摩登時代》《大獨裁者》等。
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. We want to live by each other' s happiness, not by each other' s misery. We don' t want to hate and despise one another. 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; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in; machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little; more than machinery we need humanity; more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
Now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say Do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress; 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.