Quotation by Charlie Chaplin

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world!
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977), British actor, screenwriter, director. The Barber (Charles Chaplin), The Great Dictator, from the Barber's speech after he is mistaken for Tomanian dictator Adenoid Hynkel (1940).

This famous closing speech was later used against Chaplin by those (in Hollywood and Washington, D.C.) who felt he was a Communist agitator.
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