Captain America Civil War Speech Sample
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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I was just a kid a 1,000,000 years ago. It seems sometimes maybe 12. I was reading Mark Twain and he wrote something that struck me right down to my core. Something so powerful, so true, that it changed my life. I memorized. It's like a repeated to myself over and over across the years he wrote In a Republic, Who was the country? Is it the government? Which for the moment is in the saddle, Why the government is merely a temporary servant? It cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. Who, then, is the country? Is it the newspaper? Is it the pulpit? Why These are mere parts of the country, not the whole of it. They have not command. They have only their little share in the command, in a monarchy, the king and his family of the country, in a republic. It is the common voice of the people. Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. It is a solemn and weighty responsibility and not likely to be flung aside of the bullying of pulpit press government or the empty catchphrases of politicians, each must, for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong and which courses patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man two decided against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable trader both to yourself and to your country. Leichtman label you as they may if you alone off. All the nation shall decide one way and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right that you have done your duty by yourself and by your country. Hold up your head. You have nothing to be ashamed of. It doesn't matter what the press says. It doesn't matter what the politicians or the mob says. It doesn't matter if the whole damn country decides that something wrong is something right? This nation was founded on one principle above all else. The requirement that we stand up for what we believe. No matter, the odds are the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth. Until the whole world No, you move