“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 all 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 is room for everyone and the 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
will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people,
will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will
never perish…
Soldiers – don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and
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 as cattle, 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.
Only the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers – don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty.
In the seventeenth chapter of Saint 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, the people.
You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the
power to create happiness.
You the people have the power to make life
free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then in the
name of democracy let’s 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 and security.
By the promise
of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie.
They do not
fulfil their promise, they never will.
Dictators free themselves but
they enslave the people.
Now let us fight to fulfil that promise.
Let us
fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, 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!”