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[00:17.00]I'm sorry,
[00:19.00]but I don't want to be an emperor,
[00:21.00]that's not my business.
[00:23.00]We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in.
[00:27.00]Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
[00:30.00]Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind.
[00:34.00]We think too much
[00:35.00]and feel too little.
[00:37.00]More than machinery
[00:38.00]we need humanity.
[00:39.00]More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
[00:43.00]Without these qualities life will be violent
[00:46.00]and all will be lost.
[00:47.00]The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together.
[00:50.00]The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men,
[00:53.00]cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all
[00:57.00]Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world,
[01:00.00]millions of desparing men, women, and little children,
[01:03.00]victims of a system that makes men torture
[01:06.00]and imprison innocent people.
[01:08.00]To those who can hear me I say:
[01:10.00]do not despair.
[01:12.00]The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed,
[01:15.00]the bitterness of men
[01:17.00]who fear the way
[01:18.00]of human progress.
[01:19.00]The hate of men will pass
[01:21.00]and dictators will die,
[01:22.00]and the power they took from the people will return to the people
[01:27.00]and so long as men die
[01:29.00]liberty will never perish.
[01:31.00]Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men!
[01:34.00]Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts!
[01:38.00]You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are *men*!
[01:41.00]You have the love of humanity in your hearts.
[01:43.00]You don't hate. Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural.
[01:48.00]Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
[01:51.00]In the 17th chapter of St. Luke it is written:
[01:53.00]"The Kingdom of God is within man."
[01:56.00]Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men: in you!
[01:59.00]You the people have the power.
[02:02.00]The power to create machines,
[02:03.00]The power to create happiness
[02:05.00]You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful,
[02:08.00]to make this life a wonderful adventure!
[02:10.00]Then, in the name of democracy, let us that power!
[02:13.00]Let us all unite!
[02:15.00]Let us fight for a new world!
[02:17.00]Dictators free themselves,
[02:20.00]but they enslave the people.
[02:22.00]Now let us fight to fulfil that promise.
[02:24.00]Let us fight to free the world!
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