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 man, white.
We all want to help one
another.
Human beings are like that.
We want to live by each other's
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.
We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has
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 airplane and the radio
have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions
cries out for the goodness in men; 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, 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 the 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 is written that 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 do not
fulfill that promise. 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!
Hannah,
can you hear me?
Wherever you are, look up Hannah!
The clouds are
lifting!
The sun is breaking through!
We are coming out of the darkness
into the light!
We are coming into a new world; a kindlier world, where
men will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality.
Look up,
Hannah!
The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning
to fly.
He is flying into the rainbow!
Into the light of hope, into the
future!
The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of
us.
Look up, Hannah. Look up!
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