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Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded make this life free and beautiful, to make this life
the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into a wonderful adventure.
misery and bloodshed. We have developed
speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery Then, in the name of democracy, let us use
that gives abundance has left us in want. Our that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a
knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, new world: a decent world that will give men a
hard and unkind. We think too much and feel chance to work, that will give youth a future and
too little. old age a security.

More than machinery we need humanity. By the promise of these things, brutes have
More than cleverness we need kindness and risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil
gentleness. that promise. They never will! Dictators free
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all themselves but they enslave the people! Now let
will be lost… us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free
the world, to do away with national barriers, to
The aeroplane and the radio have brought do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
us closer together. The very nature of these Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where
inventions cries out for the goodness in men, science and progress will lead to all men’s
cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity happiness. Soldiers! In the name of democracy,
of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions let us all unite!
throughout the world, millions of despairing
men, women, and little children, victims of a TRACK 29 (Practice 5, Activities 10 and 21)
system that makes men torture and imprison
innocent people. Narrator: Learning How to Live Alone
Voice: When I was in high school, one of my
To those who can hear me, I say: do not despair. biggest desires was to leave my house. I had
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing nothing against my family, I just wanted to live
of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way alone, learn how to be an adult... Yes, my mom
of human progress. The hate of men will pass, used to ask me to clean my room, to go buy
and dictators die, and the power they took from tortillas... My father always asked about my
the people will return to the people. And so long grades, asked me to go to bed early, would not
as men die, liberty will never perish. let me drive his car... My younger brother was
quite silly and he was always bothering me... but
Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men no, I had nothing against my family...
who despise you, enslave you, who regiment
your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and Well, as soon as I finished high school, I took
what to feel! an entrance exam for a university in another
city and, mysteriously, I was admitted. I gave
Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use my parents the news and they were very, very
you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves happy... I still don’t understand why.
to these unnatural men: machine men with
machine minds and machine hearts! You are not Shortly, the day I would go to my university
machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You arrived. I packed my things, got on the bus and
have the love of humanity in your hearts! You left for my new city. I was very excited, very
don’t hate! Only the unloved hate, the unloved happy. I felt very sure of myself, very adult...
and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for I was apprehensive when I got off the first bus,
slavery! Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St 200 kilometers away, because I hadn’t checked
Luke, it is written: “The Kingdom of God is within where the bus was going.
man.” Not one man nor a group of men, but in all
men! In you! You, the people have the power, the After taking another bus, I finally arrived at my
power to create machines, the power to create actual destination… I didn’t know what I had
happiness! You, the people, have the power to gotten myself into.

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