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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 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’s 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 aeroplane 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 who 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
“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.
Look up! Hanna,
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 kind new world where men
will rise above their hate and brutality.
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,
that glorious future that belongs to you, to me
and to all of us. Look up hanna. Look up.
