Adopted and proclaimed on 3 March 1922
Burakumin throughout the country, unite!
Long suffering brothers:
In the past half century, reform undertakings on our behalf by many people in various have not yielded any
appreciable results. This should be taken as divine punishment for permitting others as well as ourselves to
debase our human dignity. Previous movements, though seemingly motivated by compassion, actually degraded
many of our brothers.
Therefore, it is necessary for us to organize a new collective movement through which we shall liberate ourselves
by our own effort and self-respect.
Brothers, our ancestors pursued liberty and equality, and practiced these principles.But they became the
victims of a contemptible system developed by a despicable ruling class.
They became the manly martyrs of industry. In recompense for their work in skinning animals,they were skinned
alive. For tearing out the animals ' hearts, their own warm hearts were ripped out.
They were spat at with ridicule. Yet all through these cursed nights of evil dreams, their human blood has kept on
flowing. We, who have been born of this blood, are trying to become divine. The martyr 's crown of thorns shall
receive blessing.
We who know how cruel and cold it is to be discriminated against, must not use unrespectable words and
cowardly behavior to retaliate against the ordinary human being. To do so would be to discredit our ancestors
who died for freedom and desecrate humanity. Therefore we should work passionately for human rights and seek
the lights of true humanity.
Let there be warmth in the hearts of people,and let there be light upon all mankind. from this, the Levelers
Association is born.
【 Commentary 】
1922 years.
It stood up in Japan even if the people discriminated unjustly from the age of the feudalism stopped discrimination by personal hand.
The declaration read aloud when then the organization establishes it.
It is this "declaration".
This is the Declaration of Human Rights to begin in Japan, and it is the declaration of Japan which that it is proud in the world is made in.