We Teach Life Sir, By Rafeef Ziadah

THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST INSPIRE SPEECH!

We Teach Life Sir, By Rafeef Ziadah;

the link to "You Tube" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wad5h5K38ms

I Today, my body was a TV’d massacre.

Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits.

Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits filled enough with statistics to counter measured response.

And I perfected my English and I learned my UN resolutions.

But still, he asked me, Ms. Ziadah, don’t you think that everything would be resolved if you would just stop teaching so much hatred to your children?

Pause.

The Great Dictator

Ini adalah pidato dari cuplikan film "The Great Dictator" (1940) yang diperankan oleh Charlie Chaplin sebagai Adenoid Hynkel, seorang diktator dari Tomania. Bagi saya pribadi ini merupakan salah satu pidato yang sangat menginspirasi dan bagaimana seharusnya pola pikir seorang pemimpin Bangsa Indonesia.




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's 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.