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’s 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.
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.
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.
*makes men {torture and imprison} innocent
people：make O C「OにCさせる」のCがtortureとimprisonで、どちらもinnocent peopleを目的語としている
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 who 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.
*Only the unloved hate: S:Only the unloved
/ V: hate
*the unloved (hate) and the unnatural
(hate)
Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery!
Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke it
is written: “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.
*give youth a future and (give) 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.
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!
