Just so you know, 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 -Human, Twi'Lek - Rodian - Geonosian. We all want to help one another. We 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 galaxy there is room for everyone. And the galaxy 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 our souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. 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….
The warp drive and the holo-net have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in us - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching billions throughout the galaxy - billions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
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 tyrants who fear the way of human progress. The hate of them will pass, and emperors die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as others die, liberty will never perish. …..
Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - leaders 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 beings - machines with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are people! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
It is written: “the Kingdom of the force is within all of us” - not one person nor a group of people, but in all people! 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 the Golden Reach - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give us a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
Emperors free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to everyone's happiness. Soldiers! in the name of The Golden Reach, let us all unite!
Greed has poisoned our souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. 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….
The warp drive and the holo-net have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in us - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching billions throughout the galaxy - billions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
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 tyrants who fear the way of human progress. The hate of them will pass, and emperors die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as others die, liberty will never perish. …..
Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - leaders 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 beings - machines with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are people! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
It is written: “the Kingdom of the force is within all of us” - not one person nor a group of people, but in all people! 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 the Golden Reach - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give us a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
Emperors free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to everyone's happiness. Soldiers! in the name of The Golden Reach, let us all unite!