I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business.
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I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone.
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I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile, black man, white.
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We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.
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We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery.
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We don’t want to hate and despise one another.
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In this world there is room for everyone.
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And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
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The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
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Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate,
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has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
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We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
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Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
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Our knowledge has made us cynical.
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Our cleverness, hard and unkind.
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We think too much and feel too little.
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More than machinery we need humanity.
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More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
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Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....
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The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together.
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The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men -
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cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all.
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Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world -
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millions of despairing men, women, and little children -
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victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
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To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair.
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The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed -
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the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die,
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and the power they took from the people will return to the people.
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And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
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Soldiers!
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Don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you -
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who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel!
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Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
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Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men -
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machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!
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You are not machines!
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You are not cattle!
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You are men!
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You have the love of humanity in your hearts!
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You don’t hate!
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Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural!
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Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
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In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written:
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“the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!
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You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness!
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You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
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Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite!
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Unite
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| Bliss N Eso |
