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  • 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 men, white.

  • We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

  • We want to live by each others' happiness, not by each other's misery.

  • We don't want to hate and despise one another.

  • In this world there is 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.

  • has close to passing to mystery in bloodshed

  • we have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in

  • Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.

  • Our knowledge as 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.

  • The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out

  • for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

  • Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world,

  • millions of despairing men, women, and little children,

  • victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

  • To those who can hear me, I say

  • "Do not despair."

  • The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed,

  • the bitterness of men

  • who fear the way of human progress.

  • The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people

  • will return to the people.

  • And so long as men die,

  • liberty will never perish.

  • Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes,

  • men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do,

  • what to think and what to feel!

  • Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle,

  • use you as cannon fodder!

  • Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men

  • machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men!

  • You have a love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate!

  • Only the unloved hate;

  • the unloved and the unnatural.

  • soldiers

  • Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke,

  • it's written "the kingdom of God is within man", not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!

  • In you!

  • You, the people, have the power,

  • the power to create machines, the power to create happiness!

  • You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

  • Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power

  • Let us all unite.

  • Let us fight for a new world,

  • a decent world

  • that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

  • By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie!

  • They never will!

  • Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!

  • Now let us fight to fulfill that promise!

  • Let us fight to free the world!

  • To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance!

  • Let us fight for a world of reason

  • a world where science and progress

  • will lead to all men's happiness.

  • Soldiers,

  • in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

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