But I don´t want to
be an Emperor!
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 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 soul.
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.
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
the universal brotherhood!
Even now my voice
is reaching... 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...
The hate of men will pass.
And the power they took
from the people
will return to the people.
...Liberty will never perish...
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 have the love
of humanity
in your hearts!
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 happy and beautiful,
a wonderful adventure.
Then
in the name of democracy:
Let us fight
for a new 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 fulfill their 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 greed,
with hate and ignorance.
Let us fight
for a world of reason!
A world
where science and progress
will lead to
all men´s happiness!
In the name of democracy: