00:03 So we all know the story of Hansel and Gretel: two kids, parents, not enough food. They get kicked out of their house. But they couldn't do anything about it. But now we see if they had the power to refute and talk back and ask why? Why are you kicking me out? They could have done something. So when we look at Gandhi in this quote -- "The power to question is the basis of all human progresss -- we see that

00:30 the ability to question and ask and speak out is what leads us as a country, as people, to progress. So let's first look at three main points. First, let's look at the development of the United States . Second, let's look at a court case in 1925. And finally, let's look at something that happens today that leads to problems when we speak out too much. So first, we see in the past, when we created the United

01:00 States, the founding fathers knew that if the people couldn't speak out, it would just leave to another monarchy, some sort of dictatorship controlling the people under them. This was the problem that they had with England at that time, and therefore, this is why they put it in the Constitution that we had to have the ability to speak. We had to be able to stand up for ourselves and speak out for the injustice that a dictatorship or some sort of

01:30 strong government could do to the people. Now, we could also at it in the past, in 1925. This important date was the Scopes Monkey Trial. In this trial, Scopes, or John Scopes, was put on trial for teaching, well, evolution, the origins of man, from Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species." He spoke out for what he believed in,

02:00 some sort of theory that explained why people are here to today that contradicted the Bible. Now, if he didn't have this, if he didn't speak out and have this court case, there would be no progress. We would have gotten nowhere. We would still be stuck in the past and schools would teaching only Creationism. But, of course speaking out always has problems in itself, and we can look at it more recently in this

02:30 more recent event in India . We see that 10 terrorists kind of went into the main capital, shot a bunch of people, and killed a bunch of people. This is a form of expressing themselves, and yet it's not leading anywhere to human progress. In fact, it's contrary to that. So even though we have the power to do so and we have the power and we need it to progress as a human being, taking it too far is by no means

03:00 what we need to do. And therefore, when we have the power, it also comes with responsibility because we don't want people dying in the streets. We don't want normal civilians to be hurt from our speaking out. So, when we look back at these three points -- first, the development of the United States , second, the Scopes Monkey Trial, and finally when we see it in India today -- we can go back

03:30 to the story of Hansel and Gretel and see that if they had spoken out they could have done something. They might have been able to stay in the house. But if they fought back and attacked their parents, then nothing would have happened.