I'm sorry 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 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 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
- 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 of 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
natural soldiers don't fight for slavery
fight for liberty in the 17th 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 you the 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
you