| I found the answer… open your hands.
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| Reach out, distance enough, and fair maiden in hand,
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| All in all, we ain’t… But, we press on!
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| I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. |
| That’s not my business.
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| I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. |
| I should like to help everyone if
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| possible; |
| Jew, Gentile, black man, white. |
| We all want to help one another.
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| Human beings are like that. |
| We want to live by each others happiness,
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| not by each others misery. |
| We don’t want to hate and despise one another.
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| In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can
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| provide for everyone. |
| The way of life can be free and beautiful,
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| but we have lost the way. |
| Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the
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| world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
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| We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives
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| abundance has left us in want. |
| Our knowledge has made us cynical;
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| our cleverness, hard and unkind. |
| We think too much and feel too little.
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| More than machinery, we need humanity. |
| More than cleverness, we need kindness
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| and gentleness. |
| Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be
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| lost. |
| The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together.
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| The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men;
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| cries out for universal brotherhood; |
| for the unity of us all. |
| Even now my
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| voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men,
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| women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and
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| imprison innocent people. |
| To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair.
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| The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of
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| men who fear the way of human progress. |
| The hate of men will pass,
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| and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the
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| people. |
| And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. |
| Soldiers!
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| Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you;
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| who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel!
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| Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
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| Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men — machine men with machine minds
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| and machine hearts! |
| You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!
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| You have the love of humanity in your hearts! |
| You don’t hate! |
| Only the unloved
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| hate; |
| the unloved and the unnatural. |
| Soldiers! |
| Don’t fight for slavery!
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| Fight for liberty! |
| In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that
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| the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men,
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| but in all men! |
| In you! |
| You, the people, have the power, the power to create
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| machines, the power to create happiness! |
| You, the people, have the power to
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| make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
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| Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. |
| Let us all unite.
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| Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to
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| work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. |
| By the promise of
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| these things, brutes have risen to power. |
| But they lie! |
| They do not fulfill
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| that promise. |
| They never will! |
| Dictators free themselves but they enslave the
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| people. |
| Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. |
| Let us fight to free the
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| world! |
| To do away with national barriers! |
| To do away with greed,
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| with hate and intolerance! |
| Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where
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| science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. |
| Soldiers,
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| in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
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| Don’t set the sun or let hearts grow dim. |
| Return back to the hill that you left,
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| with the city in your hands and if nothings left, well, the forest marches on.
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| Forget not who you are. |
| Children of the sun. |
| My point is,
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| salt is on the ground,
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| the cast are on their way,
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| and the audience is set.
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| Now that we have painted faith, shout, 'Victory is ours!' |