Let Us All Unite!

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 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 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 airplane 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, 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 and 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 unnatural

Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke

It is written that 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 youth a 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!