What threatens us today is fear. Not the atom bomb, nor even fear of it because if

the bomb fell on Oxford tonight, all it could do would be to kill us which is

nothing, since in doing that it will have robbed itself of its only power over us….

Our danger is the forces in the world today which are trying to use man’s fear to

rob him of his individuality, his soul, trying to reduce him to an unthinking mass

of fear and bribery. It is not men in the masks who can and will save Man. It is

Man himself….Man, the individual, men and women…who will believe always not

only in the right of man to be free of injustice and rapacity and deception, but the

duty and responsibility of man to see that justice and truth and pity and

compassion are done….Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth

and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed….you will change the

earth. In one generation all the Napoleons and Hitlers and Caesars and

Mussolinis and Stalins and all other tyrants who want power and aggrandizement,

and the simple politicians and time-servers who themselves are merely baffled or

ignorant or afraid, who have used, or are using, or hope to use man’s fears and

greed for man’s enslavement, will have vanished from the face of it.