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0:00I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business.
0:05I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible -
0:10Jew, Gentile - black man – white. We all want to help one another.
0:15Human beings are like that.
0:17We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery.
0:20We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone.
0:24And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
0:27The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
0:32Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate,
0:37has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
0:40We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
0:43Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
0:46Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind.
0:50We think too much and feel too little.
0:53More than machinery we need humanity.
0:56More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
0:59Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
1:03The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together.
1:06The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men -
1:09cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all.
1:12Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world -
1:15millions of despairing men, women, and little children -
1:18victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
1:23To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair.
1:27The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed -
1:30the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
1:34The hate of men will pass, and dictators die,
1:37and the power they took from the people will return to the people.
1:40And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
1:45Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you -
1:50who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel!
1:54Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
1:58Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men -
2:01machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!
2:04You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men!
2:08You have the love of humanity in your hearts!
2:10You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural!
2:14Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
2:18In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written:
2:20“the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!
2:24In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines.
2:28The power to create happiness!
2:30You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful,
2:33to make this life a wonderful adventure.
2:36Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite.
2:40Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work -
2:45that will give youth a future and old age a security.
2:48By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie!
2:52They do not fulfil that promise.
2:54They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!
2:59Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world -
3:04to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
3:10Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
3:16Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!