The Soul of Democracy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 94 pages of information about The Soul of Democracy.

The Soul of Democracy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 94 pages of information about The Soul of Democracy.

“Awake America” means Americans awake!  For in democracy the individual is the soul.  On each person rests the responsibility.  Let us accept the bitter burden and meet the supreme test, giving time, money, service, life and those we love better than life, for the sake of the safer, freer, nobler world that is to be.  Since we stood apart so long and entered the horrible devastation so late, it is our privilege to do all we can to save the spiritual heritage of humanity, to keep our hearts clean from the corrosive acid of national and racial hatred, to do all in our power to remove it from the breasts of others.  Injustice in high places is possible only because there is injustice in the hearts of men.  To overthrow tyranny is but the initial step of emancipation:  unless the tyrant hate in the heart is dethroned, the external tyrant, in some form of social injustice will surely return.  He who conquers hate and the lust for revenge in his own breast is spiritually free and master of the tyrant that wrongs him.  Thus it is our privilege and duty to hate no one; but to hate injustice, greed, tyranny, aggressive selfishness, the wicked ambitions of autocratic imperialism, to resist and help to overthrow them, and so do our part in bringing in the free brotherhood of the nations and peoples in one humanity, that will be the dawn of the longed-for era of universal and permanent peace for mankind.

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