| 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. 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 things 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 has come 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 these brutes 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
and 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 men! With the love of humanity in your hearts! 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 fulfil that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now 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 the happiness of us all. Soldiers,
in the name of democracy, let us unite!
Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever
you are, look up! 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 greed,
their hate and their 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! Look up, Hannah! Look up!
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