Bryant and Stratton College Dorothy Day, MLK & Charlie Chaplin Speeches Analysis

Compare the speeches of Dorothy Day at Union Square in 1965, MLK at Riverside Church in 1967 and Charlie Chaplin in the conclusion of his 1944 movie (last one found in Resources under “Chaplin Speech”). What messages for peace in that time (and our time) did they contain? Do you agree? Why or why not? From All Quiet on the Western Front, there’s a scene of Paul, the German soldier, and a wounded French one in a foxhole; Paul says the two could be brothers, “but they never want us to know that, do they?” Who is he referring to? Who are “they”? What is the Catholic Worker Movement and its relation to peace?