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 on 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 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 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
I'm in 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
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
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
kindly a 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 out Hannah
look
you