Don't Be a Sucker! (1943) Movie Script
1
This looks like a fake, doesn't it?
Well, it is a fake, but here's a fellow who's willing to
bet his hard-earned money on it.
Henry here got on the train with $200.
He couldn't see any harm in a friendly game of cards.
Because what if the other men were strangers?
And take Joe Collins.
He's got a nice wife at home.
But he met this girl at the bar, and she looked kind
of cute after the first couple of drinks.
There's a good old-fashioned word for people like this.
We call them suckers.
And there are other people, people who stay up nights figuring out
how to take away what they've got.
There are all kinds of games and all kinds of suckers.
Take Mike here, for instance.
He's got everything, you might say.
He's young, he's healthy, he's got a job.
And he's got a country called America.
It's a wonderful thing to have, America.
Lots of room.
Room enough to raise plenty of food.
Big factories to make things a man can use.
Big cities to do the business of a big country.
And people, lots of people.
Enough to work the farm and build the factories, dig the mines
and run the business.
All kinds of people, people from different
countries with different religions.
Different colored skins.
Free people.
They can live together and work together
and build America together because
they're free.
Free to vote.
To say what they please.
Go to their own churches.
To pick their own jobs.
Yeah, Mike's got something, all right.
He's got America.
But there are guys who stay up nights figuring out how to
take that away from him.
I want to give you the truth, folks.
The truth about America.
I know you've got a lot of questions.
You want to know why you're not getting the breaks you deserve.
Well, I'm not a politician.
But I've made it my business to study these things and I
happen to know the facts.
Now, friends, I'm just an average American.
But I'm an American American.
And some of the things I see in this country of ours
make my blood boil.
I see people with foreign accents making all the money.
I see Negroes holding jobs that belong to me and you.
Now I ask you, if we allow this thing to go on,
what's going to become of us real Americans?
I've heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to
hear it in America.
This fellow seems to know what he's talking about.
Yes, he knows all right.
What's the answer?
What are we real Americans going to do about it?
You'll find it right here in this little pamphlet.
The truth about Negroes and foreigners.
The truth about the Catholic Church.
Now, friends, these books are free.
Paid for by real Americans who want others to know the truth.
Excuse me, young man, but are you actually going to read that
stuff?
Sure, why not?
You heard what he said, didn't you?
Yes, I heard.
Do you believe in that kind of talk?
I don't know.
It makes pretty good sense to me.
I'm speaking to you as an American American.
And I tell you, friends, we'll never be able to call this
country our own until it's a country without.
Without what?
Yeah, without what?
Without Negroes.
Without alien foreigners.
Without Catholics.
Without Freemasons.
What's wrong with the Masons?
I'm a Mason.
Hey, that fellow's talking about me.
And that makes a difference, doesn't it?
These are your enemies.
These are the people who are trying to take over our country.
Now you know them.
You know what they stand for.
And it's up to you and me to fight them.
Fight them and destroy them before they destroy us.
Thank you.
Before he said Masons, you were ready to agree with him.
Well, yes, but he was talking about...
What about those other people?
But in this country, we have no other people.
We are American people, all of us.
What about you?
You aren't American, are you?
I was born in Hungary, but now I am an American citizen.
And I have seen what this kind of talk can do.
I saw it in Berlin.
What were you doing there?
I was a professor at the university.
I heard the same words we have heard today.
But I was a fool then.
I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics.
But unfortunately, it was not so.
You see, they knew that they were not strong enough to conquer
a unified country.
So they split Germany into small groups.
They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation.
Of course, that was not easy to do.
They had to work hard to do it.
You see, we human beings are not born with prejudices.
Always they are made for us.
Made by someone who wants something.
Remember that when you hear this kind of talk.
Somebody is going to get something out of it.
And it isn't going to be you.
This is not classroom theory.
I saw it happen.
I saw it first in Berlin in 1932.
Five young men that I knew were standing in the crowd listening
to the Nazi speaker.
Eric was a Catholic.
Anton, a student of mine, was a Jew.
Heinrich owned a small hardware store.
Karl was a farmer.
And Hans was an unemployed metal worker.
To our true Aryan Germans, I say it is time you inherited
the nation which rightfully belongs to you.
To you alone belongs the glorious destiny of the greater Germany.
The Nazi party will provide land for the farmer, work for the
worker, and profits for the small businessman.
Who is getting these things now?
The Jew.
The Jew who has stolen our nation and our birthright.
Who makes all the money and takes all our jobs.
The Jew.
He must be shunned.
He must be ostracized.
He must be eliminated.
And the Catholics.
We don't want our great nation run by a foreign church.
We Germans will know what to do with these people when the
time comes.
They and their faith must be destroyed.
Then there are the Freemasons.
In Germany we have no place for secret societies.
There will be only one society, and that is the Nazi party.
There will be no secrecy about that in the new greater Germany.
One by one he attacked each minority and he split them off
one from the other.
These men were all fellow Germans when they came here today.
Now they were split into rival groups, suspicious of each other, hating
each other.
They were being swindled, all of them.
But the man who was really being fooled was Hans.
He was pure German according to Nazi standards.
To him they promised everything, and he fell for it.
You who are true Aryan Germans will share the glorious destiny of
our fatherland.
You are the pure-blooded, the master race.
It is your divine right to rule, and the Nazi party stands
ready to put you into power.
It is for you to command all Germany, and someday the entire
world.
That's how Hans became a superman.
They gave him a uniform and it pumped up his ego.
He wasn't just a little fellow out of work anymore.
He was a member of the master race.
His wife couldn't quite understand.
Even though he was a superman, there wasn't any food in the
house.
Stupid woman.
Didn't she realize that the Nazis were going to make jobs for
everybody?
There would be plenty of food and clothing and a new house.
Everything they wanted.
The glorious future of Germany was to be theirs.
And the children would someday rule the world.
But his wife, silly woman, still wondered where the next meal was
coming from.
Hans didn't like that kind of talk.
It was dangerous.
For that kind of talk, people should be put in jail.
Hans had swallowed the bait all right.
And these were the men who baited the hook.
Why?
So that Hans could come to power?
Of course not.
So they could come to power.
They would merely use Hans to help them get there.
He would do the dirty work for them.
Hans and thousands of others like him.
All playing a sucker's game.
They gambled with other people's liberty.
And of course, they lost their own.
A nation of suckers.
Hitler needed these people.
There was lots of work to be done.
There were trade unions to be smashed.
Because unions were organized and might offer resistance.
There were many political parties in Germany.
These the Nazis destroyed.
They were determined to smash every
organization where people might band
together and resist them.
There were Jews to be beaten and killed.
The Jews were not powerful, but they were a convenient excuse for
all the nation's ills.
And besides, a Nazi party member could not take over this man's
store.
Hundreds of Catholics were put in jail.
Because the Catholic Church had strength and could resist the Nazi dry
for power.
They had split the nation into a hundred pieces.
And then one by one, they had destroyed the pieces.
Over these broken pieces, the Nazis rode into power.
One party, one nation, one religion.
These men had won their struggle for power.
They now ruled all of Germany.
But still they had trouble with their oldest and most persistent enemy,
the truth.
They found that truth does not die easily.
And so they decided to abolish truth.
One great source of truth is literature.
So they burned books, 20 million of them.
Many great men in Germany who were spokesmen for truth were jailed
or driven from their country.
Teachers, writers, scientists.
Education was discouraged.
In five years, college attendance dropped 53 percent.
It was forbidden to listen to a British radio program or read
an American newspaper.
In Nazi Germany, you had to get your information from Dr. Goebbels.
He knew what was best for you.
You couldn't see this movie or listen to this music.
And you couldn't watch Joe Louis fight because the champion had black
skin.
He disproved Hitler's theory of Nordic supremacy.
Albert Einstein, one of the world's great scientists, disproved that theory
too.
He was non-alien, so he had to leave Germany.
His mind was dedicated to the search for truth.
And the Nazis, having sold a lie, were most afraid of truth.
The church was one force in Germany still strong enough to proclaim
the truth in public.
No doubt is possible that we Christians are in a grave battle.
Against us stands a faith out of blood.
The battle signals range from cruel repudiation to hate-filled causes.
Weapons are used that centuries have dulled.
The aim of this battle is to dislodge Christianity from our fatherland.
This Catholic priest was arrested
the following day on charges of immorality.
The Protestant church also continued to try and fight for truth.
He who desires liberty for himself cannot deny it to others, lest
he lose what he has gained.
This is the great lesson the world can learn from Germany.
The Nazis put this man in a concentration camp.
There were others who spoke for truth, and I am proud to
say that educators were among them.
And what, may I ask, is an Aryan?
I don't know myself.
But let us see what our present so-called authorities have to
say about it.
They say he is tall, slender, blue
- eyed, and blond.
There is no Aryan race.
And more important, there is no master race.
There are people who may find these
ideas convenient, but science cannot
support them.
There is no scientific proof that there is any correlation between a
man's racial characteristics and his native ability or character.
In all racial groups, we find the same range of potentialities.
We find idiots and geniuses.
We find criminals and philanthropists.
We must judge each man as an individual, and not by the
color of his skin, or his eyes, or by the length of
his nose.
Come in, gentlemen.
Make yourselves comfortable.
There are many differences between individuals.
We each have different capabilities,
different backgrounds, different views
about what's right and what's wrong.
Like the difference between me and
these gentlemen who have just arrived.
But that is not the difference in race.
It is the difference in the way we think.
Remember that.
And remember that there is no master race.
That is a scientific truth.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.
And so for all practical purposes, truth had been abolished in Germany.
A lot of my German friends wondered what had hidden them.
How did it happen?
Where did it start?
It started right here.
And this was where it could have been stopped.
If those people had stood together, if they had protected each other,
they could have resisted the Nazi threat.
Together they would have been strong.
But once they allowed themselves to be split apart, they were helpless.
When that first minority lost out, everybody lost out.
They made the mistake of gambling with other people's freedom.
Now let's see how those bets paid off.
Karl, the farmer, was gambling on a better life for himself.
What he got was extra hours of back-breaking work.
As much as a hundred hours a week.
He was forced to stay on his land and produce what he
was told to produce.
Because now Hitler was preparing for war.
For Heinrich, who owned a hardware store, the bet didn't pay off
either.
One hundred and four thousand small
businesses were closed in two years.
And for Hans, conditions hadn't improved any.
He had a job now, in the munitions factory.
But he worked long hours for little pay.
The working conditions grew increasingly bad.
And even though he didn't like the job, he wasn't permitted to
leave it.
There still wasn't enough food in his house.
Hitler said you couldn't have butter and cannon.
So Hans couldn't have butter.
And when Hitler decided the time was right, Germany went to war.
Not by declaring war, but by a carefully prepared sneak attack.
Once again, Hitler needed Hans to do his dirty work.
Hans was an expert at brutality by this time.
And Hitler had decided to use Hans and his brutality against other
peoples.
The Czechs, the Poles, the French, the Russians.
But in the crucial test of war, Hitler's race theories didn't pay
off.
His pure-blooded supermen were
defeated by the mongrel armies he despised.
By the British at El Alamein.
By the Russians at Stalingrad.
And then on D-Day by American soldiers of every colour and
religion, who smashed across the Normandy
beaches and drove on through to
the heart of Germany.
For the misguided Germans who had swallowed the Nazi bait, the Nazi
game did not pay off.
The continent of Europe was strewn with millions of German bodies.
Pure Aryan bodies.
Karl, the farmer, was left in the snow outside of Moscow.
Heinrich stayed in Italy at Salerno.
And Hans, who was going to rule the world, got only a
little patch of Normandy that he could call his own.
We must never let that happen to us or to our country.
We must never let ourselves be divided by race or colour or
religion, because in this country we all belong to minority groups.
I was born in Hungary.
You are a Mason.
These are minorities.
And then you belong to other minority groups too.
You are a farmer.
You have blue eyes.
You go to the Methodist church.
Your right to belong to these minorities is a precious thing.
You have a right to be what you are and say what
you think, because here we have personal freedom.
We have liberty.
And these are not just fancy words.
This is a practical and priceless way of living.
But we must work at it.
We must guard everyone's liberty, or we can lose our own.
If we allow any minority to lose its freedom by persecution or
by prejudice, we are threatening our own freedom.
And this is not simply an idea.
This is good, hard common sense.
You see, here in America it's not a question whether we tolerate
minorities.
America is minorities.
And that means you and me.
So let's not be suckers.
We must not allow the freedom or dignity of any man to
be threatened by any act or word.
Let's be selfish about it.
Let's forget about we and they.
Let's think about us.
transcribed by A.I.
This looks like a fake, doesn't it?
Well, it is a fake, but here's a fellow who's willing to
bet his hard-earned money on it.
Henry here got on the train with $200.
He couldn't see any harm in a friendly game of cards.
Because what if the other men were strangers?
And take Joe Collins.
He's got a nice wife at home.
But he met this girl at the bar, and she looked kind
of cute after the first couple of drinks.
There's a good old-fashioned word for people like this.
We call them suckers.
And there are other people, people who stay up nights figuring out
how to take away what they've got.
There are all kinds of games and all kinds of suckers.
Take Mike here, for instance.
He's got everything, you might say.
He's young, he's healthy, he's got a job.
And he's got a country called America.
It's a wonderful thing to have, America.
Lots of room.
Room enough to raise plenty of food.
Big factories to make things a man can use.
Big cities to do the business of a big country.
And people, lots of people.
Enough to work the farm and build the factories, dig the mines
and run the business.
All kinds of people, people from different
countries with different religions.
Different colored skins.
Free people.
They can live together and work together
and build America together because
they're free.
Free to vote.
To say what they please.
Go to their own churches.
To pick their own jobs.
Yeah, Mike's got something, all right.
He's got America.
But there are guys who stay up nights figuring out how to
take that away from him.
I want to give you the truth, folks.
The truth about America.
I know you've got a lot of questions.
You want to know why you're not getting the breaks you deserve.
Well, I'm not a politician.
But I've made it my business to study these things and I
happen to know the facts.
Now, friends, I'm just an average American.
But I'm an American American.
And some of the things I see in this country of ours
make my blood boil.
I see people with foreign accents making all the money.
I see Negroes holding jobs that belong to me and you.
Now I ask you, if we allow this thing to go on,
what's going to become of us real Americans?
I've heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to
hear it in America.
This fellow seems to know what he's talking about.
Yes, he knows all right.
What's the answer?
What are we real Americans going to do about it?
You'll find it right here in this little pamphlet.
The truth about Negroes and foreigners.
The truth about the Catholic Church.
Now, friends, these books are free.
Paid for by real Americans who want others to know the truth.
Excuse me, young man, but are you actually going to read that
stuff?
Sure, why not?
You heard what he said, didn't you?
Yes, I heard.
Do you believe in that kind of talk?
I don't know.
It makes pretty good sense to me.
I'm speaking to you as an American American.
And I tell you, friends, we'll never be able to call this
country our own until it's a country without.
Without what?
Yeah, without what?
Without Negroes.
Without alien foreigners.
Without Catholics.
Without Freemasons.
What's wrong with the Masons?
I'm a Mason.
Hey, that fellow's talking about me.
And that makes a difference, doesn't it?
These are your enemies.
These are the people who are trying to take over our country.
Now you know them.
You know what they stand for.
And it's up to you and me to fight them.
Fight them and destroy them before they destroy us.
Thank you.
Before he said Masons, you were ready to agree with him.
Well, yes, but he was talking about...
What about those other people?
But in this country, we have no other people.
We are American people, all of us.
What about you?
You aren't American, are you?
I was born in Hungary, but now I am an American citizen.
And I have seen what this kind of talk can do.
I saw it in Berlin.
What were you doing there?
I was a professor at the university.
I heard the same words we have heard today.
But I was a fool then.
I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics.
But unfortunately, it was not so.
You see, they knew that they were not strong enough to conquer
a unified country.
So they split Germany into small groups.
They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation.
Of course, that was not easy to do.
They had to work hard to do it.
You see, we human beings are not born with prejudices.
Always they are made for us.
Made by someone who wants something.
Remember that when you hear this kind of talk.
Somebody is going to get something out of it.
And it isn't going to be you.
This is not classroom theory.
I saw it happen.
I saw it first in Berlin in 1932.
Five young men that I knew were standing in the crowd listening
to the Nazi speaker.
Eric was a Catholic.
Anton, a student of mine, was a Jew.
Heinrich owned a small hardware store.
Karl was a farmer.
And Hans was an unemployed metal worker.
To our true Aryan Germans, I say it is time you inherited
the nation which rightfully belongs to you.
To you alone belongs the glorious destiny of the greater Germany.
The Nazi party will provide land for the farmer, work for the
worker, and profits for the small businessman.
Who is getting these things now?
The Jew.
The Jew who has stolen our nation and our birthright.
Who makes all the money and takes all our jobs.
The Jew.
He must be shunned.
He must be ostracized.
He must be eliminated.
And the Catholics.
We don't want our great nation run by a foreign church.
We Germans will know what to do with these people when the
time comes.
They and their faith must be destroyed.
Then there are the Freemasons.
In Germany we have no place for secret societies.
There will be only one society, and that is the Nazi party.
There will be no secrecy about that in the new greater Germany.
One by one he attacked each minority and he split them off
one from the other.
These men were all fellow Germans when they came here today.
Now they were split into rival groups, suspicious of each other, hating
each other.
They were being swindled, all of them.
But the man who was really being fooled was Hans.
He was pure German according to Nazi standards.
To him they promised everything, and he fell for it.
You who are true Aryan Germans will share the glorious destiny of
our fatherland.
You are the pure-blooded, the master race.
It is your divine right to rule, and the Nazi party stands
ready to put you into power.
It is for you to command all Germany, and someday the entire
world.
That's how Hans became a superman.
They gave him a uniform and it pumped up his ego.
He wasn't just a little fellow out of work anymore.
He was a member of the master race.
His wife couldn't quite understand.
Even though he was a superman, there wasn't any food in the
house.
Stupid woman.
Didn't she realize that the Nazis were going to make jobs for
everybody?
There would be plenty of food and clothing and a new house.
Everything they wanted.
The glorious future of Germany was to be theirs.
And the children would someday rule the world.
But his wife, silly woman, still wondered where the next meal was
coming from.
Hans didn't like that kind of talk.
It was dangerous.
For that kind of talk, people should be put in jail.
Hans had swallowed the bait all right.
And these were the men who baited the hook.
Why?
So that Hans could come to power?
Of course not.
So they could come to power.
They would merely use Hans to help them get there.
He would do the dirty work for them.
Hans and thousands of others like him.
All playing a sucker's game.
They gambled with other people's liberty.
And of course, they lost their own.
A nation of suckers.
Hitler needed these people.
There was lots of work to be done.
There were trade unions to be smashed.
Because unions were organized and might offer resistance.
There were many political parties in Germany.
These the Nazis destroyed.
They were determined to smash every
organization where people might band
together and resist them.
There were Jews to be beaten and killed.
The Jews were not powerful, but they were a convenient excuse for
all the nation's ills.
And besides, a Nazi party member could not take over this man's
store.
Hundreds of Catholics were put in jail.
Because the Catholic Church had strength and could resist the Nazi dry
for power.
They had split the nation into a hundred pieces.
And then one by one, they had destroyed the pieces.
Over these broken pieces, the Nazis rode into power.
One party, one nation, one religion.
These men had won their struggle for power.
They now ruled all of Germany.
But still they had trouble with their oldest and most persistent enemy,
the truth.
They found that truth does not die easily.
And so they decided to abolish truth.
One great source of truth is literature.
So they burned books, 20 million of them.
Many great men in Germany who were spokesmen for truth were jailed
or driven from their country.
Teachers, writers, scientists.
Education was discouraged.
In five years, college attendance dropped 53 percent.
It was forbidden to listen to a British radio program or read
an American newspaper.
In Nazi Germany, you had to get your information from Dr. Goebbels.
He knew what was best for you.
You couldn't see this movie or listen to this music.
And you couldn't watch Joe Louis fight because the champion had black
skin.
He disproved Hitler's theory of Nordic supremacy.
Albert Einstein, one of the world's great scientists, disproved that theory
too.
He was non-alien, so he had to leave Germany.
His mind was dedicated to the search for truth.
And the Nazis, having sold a lie, were most afraid of truth.
The church was one force in Germany still strong enough to proclaim
the truth in public.
No doubt is possible that we Christians are in a grave battle.
Against us stands a faith out of blood.
The battle signals range from cruel repudiation to hate-filled causes.
Weapons are used that centuries have dulled.
The aim of this battle is to dislodge Christianity from our fatherland.
This Catholic priest was arrested
the following day on charges of immorality.
The Protestant church also continued to try and fight for truth.
He who desires liberty for himself cannot deny it to others, lest
he lose what he has gained.
This is the great lesson the world can learn from Germany.
The Nazis put this man in a concentration camp.
There were others who spoke for truth, and I am proud to
say that educators were among them.
And what, may I ask, is an Aryan?
I don't know myself.
But let us see what our present so-called authorities have to
say about it.
They say he is tall, slender, blue
- eyed, and blond.
There is no Aryan race.
And more important, there is no master race.
There are people who may find these
ideas convenient, but science cannot
support them.
There is no scientific proof that there is any correlation between a
man's racial characteristics and his native ability or character.
In all racial groups, we find the same range of potentialities.
We find idiots and geniuses.
We find criminals and philanthropists.
We must judge each man as an individual, and not by the
color of his skin, or his eyes, or by the length of
his nose.
Come in, gentlemen.
Make yourselves comfortable.
There are many differences between individuals.
We each have different capabilities,
different backgrounds, different views
about what's right and what's wrong.
Like the difference between me and
these gentlemen who have just arrived.
But that is not the difference in race.
It is the difference in the way we think.
Remember that.
And remember that there is no master race.
That is a scientific truth.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.
And so for all practical purposes, truth had been abolished in Germany.
A lot of my German friends wondered what had hidden them.
How did it happen?
Where did it start?
It started right here.
And this was where it could have been stopped.
If those people had stood together, if they had protected each other,
they could have resisted the Nazi threat.
Together they would have been strong.
But once they allowed themselves to be split apart, they were helpless.
When that first minority lost out, everybody lost out.
They made the mistake of gambling with other people's freedom.
Now let's see how those bets paid off.
Karl, the farmer, was gambling on a better life for himself.
What he got was extra hours of back-breaking work.
As much as a hundred hours a week.
He was forced to stay on his land and produce what he
was told to produce.
Because now Hitler was preparing for war.
For Heinrich, who owned a hardware store, the bet didn't pay off
either.
One hundred and four thousand small
businesses were closed in two years.
And for Hans, conditions hadn't improved any.
He had a job now, in the munitions factory.
But he worked long hours for little pay.
The working conditions grew increasingly bad.
And even though he didn't like the job, he wasn't permitted to
leave it.
There still wasn't enough food in his house.
Hitler said you couldn't have butter and cannon.
So Hans couldn't have butter.
And when Hitler decided the time was right, Germany went to war.
Not by declaring war, but by a carefully prepared sneak attack.
Once again, Hitler needed Hans to do his dirty work.
Hans was an expert at brutality by this time.
And Hitler had decided to use Hans and his brutality against other
peoples.
The Czechs, the Poles, the French, the Russians.
But in the crucial test of war, Hitler's race theories didn't pay
off.
His pure-blooded supermen were
defeated by the mongrel armies he despised.
By the British at El Alamein.
By the Russians at Stalingrad.
And then on D-Day by American soldiers of every colour and
religion, who smashed across the Normandy
beaches and drove on through to
the heart of Germany.
For the misguided Germans who had swallowed the Nazi bait, the Nazi
game did not pay off.
The continent of Europe was strewn with millions of German bodies.
Pure Aryan bodies.
Karl, the farmer, was left in the snow outside of Moscow.
Heinrich stayed in Italy at Salerno.
And Hans, who was going to rule the world, got only a
little patch of Normandy that he could call his own.
We must never let that happen to us or to our country.
We must never let ourselves be divided by race or colour or
religion, because in this country we all belong to minority groups.
I was born in Hungary.
You are a Mason.
These are minorities.
And then you belong to other minority groups too.
You are a farmer.
You have blue eyes.
You go to the Methodist church.
Your right to belong to these minorities is a precious thing.
You have a right to be what you are and say what
you think, because here we have personal freedom.
We have liberty.
And these are not just fancy words.
This is a practical and priceless way of living.
But we must work at it.
We must guard everyone's liberty, or we can lose our own.
If we allow any minority to lose its freedom by persecution or
by prejudice, we are threatening our own freedom.
And this is not simply an idea.
This is good, hard common sense.
You see, here in America it's not a question whether we tolerate
minorities.
America is minorities.
And that means you and me.
So let's not be suckers.
We must not allow the freedom or dignity of any man to
be threatened by any act or word.
Let's be selfish about it.
Let's forget about we and they.
Let's think about us.
transcribed by A.I.