It has not only shattered men’s breasts, but loosened the black fury of their hearts; so that in rape, and cruelty, and rage, we have ancient brutishness trailing at the heels of all armies.
It has found a world of friends and neighbors, and substituted a world of outlanders and aliens and enemies.
It has lessened the number of those who feel the joys and sorrows of all peoples as of their own.
It has strangled truth and paralyzed the power and wish to face it, and has set up monstrous and irreconcilable myths of self-justification.
It has mutilated the human spirit.
It has become a thing which passeth all understanding.
STRIKING HANDS
We must join in throwing off this tyranny.
We have heard the call from overseas of those who have appealed to men and women of good-will in all nations to join with them in throwing off this tyranny upon life.
We must go further; we must throw open a peace which shall be other than a shadow of old wars and a prelude to new. We do more than plead with men to stay their hands from killing. We hail living men. As peace-lovers, we are charged with the sanctity of human life; as democrats and freemen we are charged with its sovereignty.