I guess it’s just too much to ask when this video is removed to let me know so that I can upload another one for the readers. This is the fourth time I’ve had to update this post. Also, this is the longer version of the speech.
Movies and music have always effected me in a visceral sense. The emotions they induce profoundly speak for me when I am unable to, as in Mel Gibson’s powerful speech from 1995’s Braveheart. The words are even more powerful today.
From the Braveheart script:
William: Sons of Scotland, I am William Wallace. Young soldier: William Wallace is 7 feet tall.William: Yes, I’ve heard. He kills men by the hundreds, and if he were
here he’d consume the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts
of lightning from his arse.
I am William Wallace, and I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny.
You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are.
What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?
Veteran soldier: Fight against that? No, we will run, and we will live.
William: Aye, fight and you may die, run and you’ll live. At least a while.
And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to
trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one
chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take
our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom?!
Alba gu bra! (Scotland forever!)
(The Scots cheer “Alba gu bra” repeatedly)
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