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Tuesday 10 December 2013

...but we have lost the way...greed has poisoned men's soul...let us fight ...to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason!





I am sorry but I don't want to be an emperor.
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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:
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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 misery.
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We don't want to hate one another.
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In this world,
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the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
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The way of life can be free and beautiful
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but we have lost the way.
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Greed has poisoned men's souls,
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has barricaded the world with hate,
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has goose-stepped us into bloodshed.
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We have developed speed but have shut ourselves in.
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Machinery has left us in want.
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Our knowledge has made us cynical, 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 radio have brought us closer.
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These inventions cry out for the goodness in man,
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cry out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.
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Even now my voice is reaching millions,
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millions of despairing men, women and children,
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victims of a system that makes men torture
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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 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 will return to the people.
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So long as men die liberty will never perish.
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Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes,
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men who despise you, enslave you,
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regiment your lives, tell you what to think and feel,
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who drill you, treat you like cattle and use you as cannon fodder.
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Don't give yourselves to these men,
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machine men with machine minds and machine hearts.
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You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!
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You have the love of humanity in you.
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Don't hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural hate.
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Soldiers, don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty!
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St Luke says, ''The Kingdom of God is within man.''
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Not in one man nor a group of men, but in all men. In you!
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You have the power to create machines,
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the power to create happiness.
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You have the power to make this life free and beautiful,
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to make this life a wonderful adventure.
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In the name of democracy, let us use that power.
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Let us all unite, let us fight for a new world,
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a world that will give men a chance to work,
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that will give youth a future and old age security.
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Promising these things, brutes have risen.
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But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
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Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people.
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Now let us fight to fulfil that promise!
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Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers,
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to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
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Let us fight for a world of reason,
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a world where science and progress will lead to the happiness of all.
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Soldiers, in the name of democracy,

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